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142 / The Rāstrakūtas and Jainism
vatsagotra, chief of Vasanta, Kottūru, Nidagundi and Vikramapura agrahāras assigned to Brāhmins for their mainteinance, belonging to Vengipaļu in Vengimaņdala division, now in Andra Pradesh. His son was Abhimānacandra and his son Komarayya who was the father of Bhimapayya. That was the period when proselytism was common. Bhimapayya, who had the title of Abhirāma devarāya, contemplated that 'of the castes, the best in Brahminism and of the religion the best in Jainism'. After matured consideration, Bhimapayya proselytized on his own accord from Viprakula, Brāhmanism, to Jinadharama, Jainism. Bhimapayya married Abbanabbe, a grand-daughter of Joyisasingha, also a proselyte Jaina from Saivism, who was a resident of Annigere, a famous Jaina settlement and capital of Beļvala-300. Bhimapayya and Abbaņabbe had two sons, Pampa, the elder and Jinavallabha, the younger. Jinavallabha, also a litterateure and proficient in three languages, has authored the renowned Gangādharam inscription composed in Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu languages, which provides fresh information on the life of Pampa. Gangādharam is also associated with Somadevasūri, a mahā-kavi. Jinavallabha caused a Tribhuvanatilaka basadi, Kavitaguņārņava tank, Madana vilāsa garden, Jina bimbas, Cakreshvari sculpture etc.
5.6.1.2. The days of his childhood, spent on the banks of river Varadā, the bounty nature in all its splendour of the Banavāsi region, is kept alive in the poet's memory which finds expression in Pampa-Bhārata, the greatest epic in Kannada language and a work of great aspiration. Thus when he describes Hastināpura, the poets eye captures the grandeur of Banavāsi. Pampa does not forget to make Arjuna alias Arikesari include Banavāsi in his itinerary. When the hero Arjuna was finally was crowned on the throne, the poet does not forget to sprinkle the holy water of Varadā, the river
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