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period. The earlier one is assigned to 1450 A.D. It was discovered from Māpța Niềugalluo, and it mentions the death of the wife of a Jain merchant, called Candrave, whose father-in-law was the disciple of a Jain saint called VỊshabhasena Bhațjāraka, belonging to the Mūlasangha. Next we have an epigrapho1, from that district, dated 1531 A.D., which was discovered from Maddagiri. It refers to the local Mallinātha-svāmi temple and also records some gift for it. And lastly, an epigraphos, of 1578 A.D., refers to some gift for the old Jina temple of this place. This particular Jain centre has been mentioned in two epi. graphsøs, of much earlier period.
From Coorg area, we have an extremly important Jain epigraph®, dated Šaka 1466, corresponding to 1541 A.D. It was discovered from Anjanagiri. According to it, Abhinava Cărukirtipandita of the Mūlasangha, Deś, gana, Pustaka gaccha and liguleśvara bali (circle), discovered in Śaka 1453, two icons of Śā iti and Ananta in the river Suvarṇāvati and afterwards got them installed through his disciples in the existing Jain temple of that place, which was first made of wood, and then converted into a stone temple, in 1544 A.D. These two icons have epigraphs of the characters of the 12th century, and they originally belonged to a place, called Tātangi, which was probably not far from Anjanagiri in Mercara taluk.
Lastly we should mention a few important Jain epi. graphs from Śravaņa Belgola, of this period. In five epigraphs, from this place, we get the names of the Vijayanagara kings. The first, and at the same time, the most important epigraphos, is dated in the Saka year 1290, corresponding to 1368 A.D., which was found from the well-known Bhāņdāra basadi of this holy place. It is a copy of the epigraph, found from Kalya in Bingalore district, and refers to the settlement of a dispute between the Jains and the Vaishnavas, as we have already said. However, unlike its copy at Kalya, this epigraph is in
