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Punisa, general of the Hoysala king Visnuvardhana, and his wife Jakkavve.
JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS:
Two Jain records at Varakodu, dated in 1425 and 1431, indicate that the pillars on which they are inscribed once belonged to a Jain temple-An inscription at Hagalhalli opening with a prayer for the prosperity of the Jina-sāsana.
MANUSCRIPT EXAMINED:
P. 44. Mahisûra-doregala-vaṁśābali, a Kannada poem, written by an unknown Jain author, living in the early part of the 19th cent ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE REPORT:
Plate 13. Jina figure, architrave of a doorway, and pillar in ruined bastis at Basti Haskote.
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Report, do, 1921. Bangalore, 1922.
WORKS TRANSCRIBED:
P. 5. Indirabhyudaya, a champu by Raghunaatha Sūri-Sastrasara-samuchchaya by Maghanandi (in part)-Padarthasara by Maghanandi (in part).
EPIGRAPHY:
Pp. 18-29. A set of copper plates received from the Tirumukudlu, Narsipur tāluq, relating to the Gangas. It registers a grant in 963 A.D. by king Marasimha to a scholar named Munjárya alias Vädighanghalabhaṭṭa. A full account of the Ganga dynasty is given in the record.
MANUSCRIPTS EXAMINED:
P. 33. Sastrasāra Samuchchaya, a Kannada prose work on Jain philosophy by Maghanandi, a Jain teacher of the middle of the 13th cent. Vaidyanighaṇṭusara, a Sanskrit work bearing on medicine in the form of a lexicon by Chikkana pandita, a Jain author. He was patronised by the Mysore king Chikka-Deva Raja-Odeyar (16721704).
