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23. Ayyāvale (Aihole) :-This place in Bijapur district of Karnāțaka has supplied a very early Jain epigraph, dated 634 A.D., composed by the Digambara poet Ravikirti (see for further details, supra, Vol. I, pp. 177 f.). This epigraph shows that in the first half of the 7th century, there was a Jinendra temple, built of stone at this place. Another epigraph, noticed in the present volume (p. 98), dated 1116 A.D., records the reconstruction of the same temple. As noted by Desai (Jainism in South India etc., p. 318), the merchants of this particular place were quite influential in South India,
24. Badli :-It is a place in Belgaum district of Karnāšaka and an epigraph, from this place, discloses the existence of a Digambara shrine, called Brahma Jinālaya, which was built by Māra simba (see Jainism in South India etc., p. 118).
25. Badanāvara :—This is a place in Dhar district of M.P., and is known for the beautiful temple of Adiśvara ; see Tirtha Darsan, pp. 506-07.
26. Bāhadameru :-It was a well-known centre of Jainism in Rajasthan. Its modern name is Barmer. The KB (p. 49) refers to the Rshabha temple of this town in connexion with the wanderings of Jineśvara II of the Kharatara gaccha in V.S. 1283, A temple of Mabāvīra existed here in V.S. 1327 (see Jainapustaka-prasasti-sangraha, p. 98). These references show that in the 13th century, Barmer was a Svetāmbara centre and the temples dedicated to Rshabha and Mahavira were its principal shrines.
27. Baligrāma :-This was a famous Jain tirtha, associated with the Tirthaikara śāntinātha (see above, pp. 108 f.), now known as Balgambe, which is in Shimoga district of Karnāțaka. As we have already seen (see p. 127), this temple of Sāntinātha was originally built by Jayasimba II (1015-1043) af the Western Cālukya dynasty. It was also a great centre of the Brābmanical religion in the early mediaeval period, and there were temples, dedicated to Rudra,
