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Tiruppattikkuņru near Kanchi, has two Jain epigraphs of of the last quarter of the 14th century. Both these epigraphs10* mention the Jain general Irugappa, the son of Baicaya and record the gift, by that great Jain devotee, for the Vardhamāna temple of this place. The second epigraph records the fact that Pushpasena was the guru of Irugappa. We know that both Baicaya and his son were the generals of the Vijayanagara kings. From Tirumalai also, we have a Jain record 106 of the 14th century; and another Jain record 108, of the 16th century, from Tamil Nadu, is known. It was discovered from Tirunamkondai and it is engraved on the local Candranātha temple. From Karandai of Northern Arcot district in Tamil Nadu, we have a number of Jain epigraphs, a few of which, were noticed in an earlier chapter of this volume.107 Several epigraphs108, from this place, of our period, are also known. One of them 109, mentions the great Kșshnadevarāya, the Vijayanagara emperor, and is dated in Saka 1431, corresponding to 1509 A.D. It records that the king Kệsbộadeva had freed all temples from all kinds of taxes. The Buddhists and Jains also naturally were benefitted by this measure. From Hanumantguļi in Ramnad district, we have a Jain epigraph 110, which gives the date Saka 1455, corresponding to 1533 A.D.111
In Andhra Pradesh, we have only a few Jain epigraphs, one of which should be mentioned here. The pedestal of a missing image, now preserved at Hampi, records21, the construction of a Jina temple, in the city Kandanavrolu, which is the ancient name of Kurnool. An image of Kunthunātha, the 17th Tirthaikara, was installed, in that temple, by Immadi Bukka Mantrāśvara, the son of Baicaya Dandanātha, in 1395 A.D. This royal official has further been described as the disciple of the great Jain saint Dharmabhushaņa, who belonged to the Sarasvati gaccha and the Balātkāra gana. Desai refers to an epigraph113, belonging to the Virašaivas, found from Srisailam in Andhra
