History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Avinita Paves The Way/17
4.4.1 King Simhavarmarāja, Nadavva's paramour, also, to
mark the auspicious ocassion of his eighteenth victorious year, granted as gift land of the extent of being sown with four kaņdukas of seeds, in an area irrigated by the waters of the Rakta tadāga tank of the city of Perūr, to the same arhadāyatana, along with a field called pañcātikaKșetra [1WG: No. 155 : C. 5th cent : pp. 479-82. Perür (TN. Coimbattur dt/tk)]. This temple is also one of the beginning basadis of the Gangas, coeval with the basadis of Perboļal, Uranūr, Perūr, Nonamangala and Mandalitirtha and the other early basadis of Banavāsi Kadambas. Nandavva's Perür is different from Evani Adigal's Perūr mentioned in the Malūr inscription [EC. X (1905) Mr. 72.5th cent]. In the annals of the early history of Gangas, three Purūr place-names figure promimently; one in Andhra Pradesh, usually referred as Ganga Perūr (Cuddapah District), the other one in Karnataka referred in the Malūr charter and the third one in Tamilnādu - all the three being Jaina settlements as early as 4th and 5th
century C.E. Avinita Paves The Way 4.4.2 Konganyādhirāja Avinita (469-529), son of Mādhava-III
(440-69), made a grant of wet land (specified) over the tank of Pulliūru, a garden and a dwelling to the arhadāyatana of Hosakoțe (?) on the advice of his friar Vijayakirti (MAR .1938. pp. 80-90. 5th-6th cent.). This chapel was built in the Korikunda division of the Ganga kingdom in the early 5th century by the mother of Simhavisnu [574-600], a Pallava king (Sastry, K.A.N : 1958: 164]. She erected this temple for the prosperity of the Pallava family of her husband Simha Varman-II (C.E. 436-60), and for the augmentation of her own merit. This Arhadevāyatana of the fifth century belonged to Yavanaka (Yāpaniya) sangha (1WG: No. 14: pp. 48-51). The Gangas, like their contemporary Kadambas of