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husband of Revakanirmaḍi', and for the maintenance of this establishment he assigned some tala-rritti estates, making over the towns of Müdigēri, Gummumgola, Iṭṭage, and Gavarivada, the trustee being Gunakirtti Pandita (11. 14-21). From 11. 21-27 we learn that Gunakirtti belonged to the Valagara (i.e. Balätkära) Gana of the Nandi Sangba, a branch of the Müla Sangha, and that the spiritual pedigree to which he belonged was as follows:-Vardhamana, the preceptor of the Ganga family; his disciples Vidyananda Svami and the latter's junior colleague Manikyanandi, styled Tarkik-arka, "Sun of Logicians"; the latter's disciple Gunakirtti; his disciple Vimalachandra; his disciple Gunachandra; his disciples Gandavimukta and Abhayanandi. Our inscription B. supplements this by adding that Abhayanandi's disciple was Sakalachandra Siddhantikas; his disciple was Gandavimukta; and his disciple was Tribhuvanachandra, whom we shall meet anon in the present record. Our author next tells us that, when the Chōla king (Kō-Parakesari-Rājēndra-deva) invaded Belvala, he burned down many temples, and defiled and damaged the Jain sanctuaries erected by Permanaḍi (the Ganga Permaḍi mentioned above); but he paid the penalty of his crimes by being defeated and slain by Trailōkyamalla, i.e. Son.esvara I (11. 27-31). After various governors of Belvala had neglected their duty towards religion, Lakshma on his appointment to that office set himself to repair the ravages caused by this invasion; and when the Chalukya Emperor (Sömesvara II) was in his camp at Kakkaragonda, on the banks of the Tungabhadra, in Saka 993, he gave a mandate to Lakshma, in pursuance of which the latter made out a new charter for the above-mentioned Jain temple at Appigere, making Tribhuvanachandra the trustee, and providing for a complete restoration (11. 31-43).
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The second part (11. 44-51) records that in the following year, Saka 994, the Mahāsāmanta Katarasa, of the Kattale family, who among various other titles is styled "lord of Mayuravati best of cities," "warrior for Nerekați," and "Sun of Belvala" (Belval-aditya), and who was now apparently governor of Belvala, granted to the same sanctuary an estate out of his own sivata in Gavarivada, Tribhuvanachandra again being the trustee.
The thi: d section (11. 52-84) consists of a list of the leases of land which under the direc tion of Sakalachandra, disciple of Udayachandra, the Acharya of the diocese comprising the towns administered for the benefit of the same temple, were assigned to thirty merchants styled "sons of human gods" (manushya-deva-putra) with their president.
The fourth section (11. 85-88) briefly records a gift of land for the cult of Kali-deva and the Jinas at Baṭṭakere by the General Rechideva. This is followed by a clause fixing the dimensions of the measuring-rod for lands in the diocese at 38 spans (11. 88-89), a Sanskrit formula (11. 89-90), two comminatory verses (11. 91-92), and a supplementary grant, much mutilated (11. 93-95).
Our inscription contains two dates. The first of these is: Saka 993 (expressed by the chronogram guna-labdhi-ramdhra), Virödhakrit; Chaitra; the Vishuvat-samkranti; the
On Satyavakya Bütuga II and his wife Revakanirmadi, the sister of the Rashtrakuta Krishna III, see above, Vol. IV, p. 352, Vol. VI, p. 71, and Dyn. Kanar. Distr., p. 304.
One is tempted to identify this pair of scholars with the famous Vidyananda-Pätrakesari and the latter's disciple Manikyanandi, who wrote the Pariksha mukha and its commentary Prameya-chandrika. But Mr. Pathak has shown reasons for believing that Vidyane uda-Pätrakesari is referred to in the preface of Jinasēna's Adi-purana, and that the former was an older contemporary of Manikyanandi, the author of Pariksha-mukha; and Jinasõna's latest date is Saka 820 (J.B.B.R.A.S., 1892, p. 219 ff.). Now the Manikyanandı of our inscription must have been living shortly before Saks 890, since his disciple Gunakirtti was contemporary with the Ganga Permaḍi; hence the gap between the two dates cannot be bridged over. The Ann. Report Mysore Archæol. Department, 1910-11, p. 49, mentions a list of Jain divines in which occur some of the names found in the present pedigree; but the details are discrepant.
Au Abhayanandi and his disciple Sakalachandra, about this period, are mentioned in Inser. of Śravana Belgola, nos. 47, 50.
See Dys. Kanar. Distr., p. 441. This battle took place shortly before 20 January, A.D. 1060.
