History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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18/Ganga Monarchy & Jainism
Banavāsi, patronised Yāpaniyas In fact ācārya Simhanandi, who initiated and installed the Gangas, himself belonged to Kānūrgaña, a cohort of friars of Yāpaniya sangha (EC. VII-i (1901) Sh. 4. 1112.p. 12. lines : 26-28; EC. VIII (1902) Nr. 35. 1077], which eventually merged
with the Mūla sangha. 4.4.3.Korikunda Visaya province consisted of the area of the
present Mālūr and Hosakote taluks of Kolar district. Korikunda-300 (MAR 1919. No. 12. C.E. 700] region had included important villages like Pennaürgrāma (MAR 1942, No. 31. 610 C.E.], Pulliūrgrāma (MAR 1938. No. 1. C.E. 570), Cennalkarani (EC. X (1905) Mr. 72. 5-6th c), Uranür [1WG : No. 12. pp. 40-43] and Nonamangala (ibid). Korikunda, as the etymology would suggest, was an area where a particular variety of paddy (Kori) was grown. It is in this Korikunda division, under the great tank in the village of Pulliūru that the following grants were given to the temple of Yāpaniya Arhat. i) Seven kandukāvāpa of lands, including the wet-fields ii) five kandukāvāpa of fields situated in the centre of
the village, and one garden and for growing
sugarcane; iii) one kaņdukāvāpa of land to the south of the village. iv) to the north of the village, 12 kandukāvāpa of forest
land; v) a house situated in the vicinity of the temple of Arhat.
All these were granted free of all hindrances and with
the pouring of water IWG:No.14 : p. 51). 4.4.4 A record of Ganga king Avinīta (469-529) registers a grant
of Badaneguppe in Edenādu-70, a sub-division within Punādu-6000 and other to the illustrious sri VijayaJinālaya of Talavananagara (Talkād). The donee was