History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Sravanabelagola (Hn dt./Cn tk), Talakādu (My dt) and Vijayamangalam (TN : Periyar dt/Erode tk). Finally the
Gangas also opted to the stone structure. 4.3 Konganivarma Mādhava I (C.E. 350-75), at the instance
of his preceptor Sishanandin, had found a small kingdom of his own called Mandali Sāsira, on the outskirts of the present Shimoga, a district head-quarters on the bank of the river Tungā. He also caused a caityālaya in wood (C. 350 C.E. ), which was the earliest and perhaps the first wooden temple in Karnataka (Rice, B.L : Mysore Gazetter, Vol 1, 1897.p. 311: Sharma, I.K: 1992). In course of time, this wooden structure was renovated and rebuilt in stone [MAR. 1912. p. 30. paragraph no. 70; EC. VII-i
(BLR) Sh, 4. 1121-1122.pp. 10-15]. Early of Basadis 4.3.1 The earliest brick temples built by the Gangas were at
Perboļal, Uranür, Noņamangala and Perūr, all in Kolar district and Malūr taluk. These fourarhad-āyatanas were built in the early decades of 4th century C.E. Subsequently Mādhava Varma-III (440-69), on the advice of his Rājaguru Viradeva, who was proficient in his own doctrine and in other dogmas, granted wet-land (specified) under the big tank, a garden and the village Kumārapura to the basadi at Perbolal in the Mudukottūr division, the whole free of all imposts. This temple was in the fold of Mūla sangha abbatial monks [EC. X (BLR) Mr. 73. 5th
cent. p. 208; IWG: No. 10. pp. 34-36). 4.3.2 There were two Jaina temples at Uranūr, constructed in
the 4th century C.E. by the lay votaries of a pontiff Candranandi of Mūlasangha. Of the two basadi, one was built by an ascetic Evāni Adiga!. Kongaṇivarma, who had Avinita [469-529) as his first name, made a grant of village Cennelkarani in Korikunda region to that Arhat temple at Uranür [1WG: No. 12: 5th-6th cent.: pp. 4044]. Further the king also made over another gift of one