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places of Andhra and Karnatak. Kogali has been described in these epigraphs as a tirtha and there is little doubt that this place was considered a very sacred tirtha by the Jains of Southern India. We have another reference to this tirtha, in an epigraph, from Sogi 3 8 6 of the time of Hoysala Ballāla II, which mentions a teacher called Ubhayācārya, hailing from Kogali, who belonged to Mūlasangha, Desi gana and connected with Hanasoge (ancient Panasoge). An incomplete epigraph866, on the wall of the Pārśyanatha temple of Kogali, mentions Sāmanta Jinālaya of Kolläpura, which is also mentioned in another well-known epigraph from Śravana Belgola 307, of the time of Ballāla Il (1173. 1220). This Sämanta Jinālaya of Kollāpura was actually the name of the famous Rūpa närāyana temple 368, which was constructed by Samanta Nimbadeva and which has already been noticed by us, in the first chapters & 9 of the present work.
Another epigraph from Bellary district, viz. the Nandibeyuru inscription870 of Saka 976, corresponding to 1054 A.D., of the time of Somegvara I Trailokyamalla, mentions a celebrated Jain saint known as 'Ashţopavāsi Bhatāra' or *the preceptor of eight fasts'. It refers to a Jina temple, constructed hy a Nolamba-Pallava chief called Brahmādhirāja. The epigraph also proves that local Brāhmaṇas also had love and affection for this Jina temple. In another epigraph $71, from the same place, there is a reference to a monk called Viranandi, belonging to Pustaka gaccha, Desi gana, who received a gift from another Nolamba chief called Ghattiyarasa Iriva Narasimhadeva, during the time of Someśvara I.
Another place of the same district, viz. Mannera Masalevāda, has yielded an epigraph 37 2 of Saka 1219, corresponding 1297 A.D., and it refers to a Jina temple of Mosalevada, which received a gift from a chief called Mabāmāņdaleśvara Bhairavadása. The recipient was one Vinayacandradeva,
