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Hari, and other gods. There was also a Buddhist temple at this town.
28. Bāndhavapura :- This was the Sanskrit name of the well-known Bandalike in the Shikarpur taluk of Shimoga district in Karrāțaka. As noted by us (see above, p. 113), this place was recognised as a tirtha, as early as the 1st quarter of the 10th century A.D. The Sāntinātha temple of this town was well-known throughout Karpāțaka.
29. Barkāpura:-This great Jain tirtha of Dharwar district of Kargātaka, became a Jain centre from the 9th century A.D., as we learn from the prašasti of Guṇabhadra's Uttar apurāņa (see supra, Vol. I, p. 306) written in Śaka 820, corresponding to 898 A.D. It was founded by Barkeyarasa, a sâmanta of the Rāshţrakūța Amoghavarsha I, who ruled in the 9th century A.D. (see Premi, op cit, p. 463 footnote 4). Jain inscriptions of later times also have been discovered from this place (see above, pp. 103 f.). Even in the severteenth century, it was considered a flourishing Jain tirtha by the Svetāmbara Sila vijaya, who visited the Jain tirthas of South India in the 2nd half of that century (see Premi, op.cit., p. 463).
30. Belgola :-Belgola, or more correctly Śravana Belgola in Hassan district of Karņāțaka became a great Jain tirtha from the post-Gupta period (see supra, Vol. 1, pp. 185-86, 190-91, 194, 202, 206, 210, 317, 328, 333). One of the earliest Jain saints, connected with this place, was Prabhācandra (sec supra, I, p. 94), who has been mentioned in an epigraph of circa 600 AD. One of the earliest temples of this place was dedicated to the Tirthankara Candraprabha or Candranātha (see above, Vol. I, pp. 184-85). Afterwards, several Jain shrines were built in this holy place (see above, pp. 127 ff.); among them we can mention Pārsvanātha temple, Bbā dāri basadi, Nagara Jinālaya, the trmple dedicated to 24 Tirtharkaras etc. For a more detailed account of the temples of this place, see the revised edition (introduction) of E.C, II.
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