History of Early Ganga Monarchy and Jainism

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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8th cent: pp. 253-55). These two are different endowments of 8th and 9th centuries respectively by Nāgavarma and Vittarasa, which reflects the prominence of the cedia
caityālaya. 5.3.3 Because the two charters mentioned above belong to the
Jaina matha, a monastery of Narasimharājapura (Cm dt), it is possible that the village Tolla (r) and the caityālaya there at belonged to the abbots of that tradition. N. R. Pura Jaina mațha which belongs to late medieval period, saw its renovation during the Vijayanagara period. In the process of restoring it to the original state, the image of goddess yakși Jvālāmālini was brought from one of the dilapidated temples at Gerasoppa
(Sh. dt/Sa. tk). 5.3.3.1 It is worth contemplating whether Tolla(r) was the
earliest name of the present N.R. pura which is also
known as Simhanagadde and Edehalli. 5.4 Vijayasakti Arasa, maternal uncle and father-in-law of
king Sivamāra-II, endowed the cediya of Mulivalli with a grant of six khanduga of sowable land under the tank of Devigere, a farm in Kolunumsi and a voluntary collection of food grains from farmers to the temple charities [1WG: No. 86:9th cent: pp. 276-77). Possibility of the Mallavalli mentioned in Narasimharāja pura inscription (MAR 1920. p. 23. 8th cent) and the Mulivalli of the present epigraph being names of one and the same place
cannot be out ruled. 5.5 Sivamāra-II was a faithful follower of Nirgrantamata
and increased the popularity of his religion. His fatherin-law Vijayasakti (1WG: No. 86] and Vitarasa, his feudatory (ibid. : No. 85), took the lead from their king
Sivamāra in giving liberal endowments to basadis. 5.5.1 Jainism rose to the status of a state religion from the times
of the Ganga king Sivamāra-II and he himself embraced