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(2) Aihole Inscription, Bijapur District; Dated S. 556-Refers to the Poet Ravikirti, whose patron was Pulakesin Satyäśraya, who built a Jina temple.340
(3) Lakshmeshvar Inscriptions, Dharwar Distt.: Undated. A certain king of the Sendra family, granted land to Sankha-Jinendra,341
(4) Lakshmeshwar Inscription (ii)-Dated S. 610: mentions Vijayaditya who gave a village to his father's priest who belonged to the Devagana of the Mülasamgha, for the benefit of the temple of Sankha Jinendra at Pulikara,342
(5) Adür Inscription, Dharwar District: Undated. Reign of Kirtivarman II; grant of land by an unnamed chief to a Jinalaya.343
(6) Adür Inscription (ii)-Reign of Kirtivarman I; refers to the grant of rice-land to the Jinendra temple. The priest Prabhācandra acquired this grant.344
Besides these records, we have caves at Badāmī (c. 650 A.D.) 345 with images of Tirthankaras, those at Aihole (c. 700 A.D.) with the figure of Mahavira and other Jaina symbols like makaras and dvārapālas, the caves of Dharašiva (c. 600-650 A.D.) in the Hyderabad State,347 with Tirthankara images-all these reveal a prosperous condition of Jainism in the Deccan in the 7th century A.D.
Under the Răştrakūtas whose different branches ruled in Gujarat, Rajputānā, and the Deccan, we have a flourishing state of Jainism, as some of the kings of this dynasty were devout Jainas themselves. For instance, Amoghavarsha had great leanings towards Jainism which is evidenced by the fact that Jinasena, the writer of Adipurana, was his preceptor. Moreover a certain Jaina mathematician called Mahāvīrācārya, the writer of Ganitasarasangraha, who was a contemporary of Amoghavarsha, calls him as the follower of Syadvāda.348 Amoghavarsha seems to have granted land for a Jinalaya at the request of his subordinate Bankeśa.349 "It would seem
340. E.I., Vol. vi, 4. 341. I.A., Vol. vii, 106.
342. Ibid., 112.
343. Kar. Inscr. 1. 4.
344. L.A., xi, 69.
345. ASWI, I, pp. 25-26.
346. Ibid., p. 37.
347. Ibid., III. p. 4.
348. ALTEKAR, Räṣṭrakūtas and their times, p. 88.
349. E.I., vi, No. 4.
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