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234 / The Rāstrakūtas and Jainism
8.4.5.2. This Jaina temple had once enjoyed the rare honor of being endowed with cakravartti datti from Amõghavarşa-I, who residing at his capitol Maļkhēd granted the village of Taleyūru and lands in other villages to the Jaina sage Dēvēndra, pupil of Trikālayõgi, of Mūlasangha Dēsiyagaņa Pustakagaccha, on Thursday 3-10-860. A slab containing this charter is set up in the basadi. Another stone built into the ceiling of the front gate way in the basadi of the period of Bhuvanaikamalladēva (1068-76), containing an incomplete inscription, seems to have recorded new grants to the sustenance of the basadi, by his subordinates.
8.4.5.3. This architecturally unique Bankēśa basadi was appropriated by non-Jainas and has been converted into a Paramēśvara temple, perhaps during 14th century.
8.4.6. The only existing Jaina house of prayer at Maļkhed is Nēminātha basadi, assignable to early 10th cent. It contains some sculptures of more or less of the same period, which clearly validate the existence of more Jaina shrines of both earlier and later periods. The surviving Nēminātha basadi was also renovated in the medieval period. In the process of restoring the temple, architectural remains, particularly the pillars, of saiva/Vaisnava temples have been used in the mukhamandapa.
8.4.6.1. Epigraphical data demonstrates that a Jaina shrine called Ēkacattuga Jinālaya existed at Małkhēd in the first quarter of ninth century and the shrine sanctuary was named after the illustrious pontiff Ēkacattuga Bhațāra of Kundakunda anvaya, accomplished his death in C. E. 881 on the sepulchral at Koppaļa. Sādhusēna Pandita, honoured by the Rāştrakūta monarchs died in the Ēkacattugavasadi at Mannekhēta on 15-2-975. It is interesting to note that his pupil Siddhasēna Bhattāraka consecrated post-obitum epitaph at Koppaļa for the merit of his preceptor Sādhusēna Pandita who departed at Malkhēd. Such instances of erecting
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