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of a big jinilaya by a Samanta of Vishņuvardhana, which was known as Ekkoți Jinālaya, dedicated to Pärśva. A gift of a village is also recorded and the recipient was Brahmadeva, belonging to Mūlasangha and Sūrastha gaña. Prom Bogāļi in Nagamangala taluk, we have two epigraphs. The first 818, assigned to 1145 A.D., refers to a Jain shrine, called Karapa Jinālaya at Bhogavati (modern Bogādi), which was under the control of the well-known line of Ajitasena and Śripāla Traividya. It refers to the reigning king Vishnuvardhana. From the second epigraph 316, of tbis place, we learn that this Karana Jinālaya was dedicated to Pārsva. The epigraph is dated in the Śaka year 1095, corresponding to 1173 A.D., and the reigning king was Ballāla II. It records some gifts for the monk Padmaprabha, who also belonged to the line of the illustrious monks, mentioned in the earlier epigraph. The donor was mahāpradhāna, sarvadhikari Heggade, a loyal officer of Ballâla II. From Yalladāhalli, in the same Nagamangala taluk, we have an epigraph 917, dated 1254 A.D., of the time of Narasimha I, which mentions an offlcer called Devarāja, who belonged to a Jain family and who built a Jina temple, at a place called Süranahalli (the former name of Yalladåballi), which afterwards was given the name of Pārsvapura, by the king himself. The temple, therefore, was dedicated to Lord Pārsvanātha. A gift was also registered, which was given to Municandra, belonging to Pustaka gaccha and described as the disciple of Narendrakirti Traividya, an authority on tarka and Vyakarana.
Two Jina temples called respectively Māņikyadosalu basadi and Kodebāļa basadi are mentioned in two epigraphs918, of Mandya district, found respectively from Basti (Krishnaraja pet taluk) and Kyātanahalli (Srirangapatna taluk). Both are dated in the 12th century.
An interesting epigraph from Hațaņa $10, in Nagamangala taluk, dated Śaka 1100, corresponding to 1178 A.D., of the time of Ballā!a II, mentions a merchant, called
