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and Mahāvira are the four Jinas found on the four faces of the votive. Such four faced votive objects are revered more as they can be approached from all directions and the object represents one of the Jaina iconographic specializations. The handsome quadruple image-block at Kaļasāpura seems to have been placed on the top of a Mānastambha, a characteristic Jaina pillar of eminence. On the basis of the disseminated traces, it can be surmised that at least three Jaina pagodas existed at Kaļasāpura.
8.8.3. Kõgaļi (Ballary Dt. Hadagali Tk), a famous Jaina settlement with more basadis and monastery, continued to thrive from the time of Druvinita (late sixth cent.), the Ganga king, who commissioned a sarvatõbhadra Jinālaya, the earliest of its kind in the south. Kõgali, a pañcamatha sthāna, had Jaina cleric as sthānādhipati the chief of the town. Jinālayas possessed many hindrance free allotments for their sustenenance. Political, religious and socio-cultural significance, in the Jaina context, of Kõgaļi had its status quo ante during this period. About half a dozen bronze Jaina images from Kõgaļi are now in Government Museum of Chennai, all of them being of the Rāştrakūta age. Kogaļi Jinālayas were rich with metal images.
8.8.4. Puligere (Lakşmēsvar-Gadag Dt), one of the most celebrated cities of ancient years, remained a centre of religious and commercial activities upto the end of medieval period. Jainism was in a flourishing state and the Gangas in particular founded prodigious edifices. Sankha basadi was the Patta-Jinālaya of the Early Calukyas. Anesejjebasadi, Ganga-Kandarpa-Jinālaya, Goggiya basadi, Tirthadavasati, Caturmukha caityālaya, Dhavala Jinālaya, Permmādi basadi, Marudēvi basadi, Mukkaravasadi, Rācamalla basadi, Sankhajinālaya, śāntinātha basadi, Srivijaya jinālaya etc, are the names of Jaina sanctuaries that thrived without let, with encumbrance free donations.
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