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garden. The land for that garden was provided by Bhānukirti, Prabhācandra and Nemicandra, the three disciples of Nayakirti, with the condition, that he should pay four gadyānas (gold coins), every year, for the worship of Gommateśvara.
An epigraph*°7 from Belgola, mentions that general Recimayya, set up a temple of śāntinātha at Jinanāthapura, which, as we have already seen, was built by Gangarāja. We further learn that this temple was made over to Sāgaranandi, the disciple of Subbacandra Traividya, who was the disciple of Māghanandi, connected with Sávanta basadi of Kollāpura. Though the king is not mentioned here, we know from two epigraphs 286, of Hassan and Shimoga dis. tricts that Recimayya was a general under Ballāla II.
An epigraph2o9, from Belgola dated 1231, of the time of Narasimha Il (1220-1234 A.D.), records that Gommațaseții, the son of Padumasețți, who was a lay disciple of Nayakirti's disciple Adhyātmi Bālacandra, made a money grant for Gommateśvara. From an epigraph 800, dated 1273 A.D., we learn that Sambhudeva and other merchants of Belgola, granted certain lands, which they had purchased from Mahamandalācārya Nayakirti's disciple Candraprabha. to provide for milk offering to Gommateśvara and the 24 Tirth ankaras of the enclosure. The ruling king, at that time, was Narasimha III. Another Jain epigraph 801, is also generally assigned to the reign of this king. This inscription mentions a Jain teacher, called Māgbanandi, belonging to the Balātkāra gana, and described as a disciple of Kumudacandra. This Māghanandi is further described, in this epigraph, as the royal guru of the reigning Hoysala king, who is probably no other than Narasimha III. This inscription also refers to the Nagara Jinālaya of Belgola, which according to this epigraph, was dedicated to Adinātha. A grant is recorded, in this epigraph, for this jināiaya, by the merchants of the town. These merchants have been represented as the disciples of Māghanandi.
