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EPIGRAPHY & NUMISMATICS
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.710 B. (Kanarese in Grantha characters). On the rock. A record of the Ganga King Răjmalla. Records the founding of a Jain shrine.
710 C. ,Kanarese Grantha characters). On the same rock. The record of a Bāņa king. Records the setting up of the image of Devasena, the pupil of Bhavānandin and the spiritual preceptor of the king.
The teacher Bhavānandin who figures here is apparently different from the author of the Bhavānanda, a treatise on Nyāya, to whom Dr. Hultzch refers in his Rep. Sans. Mss. No. 1631).
710 D. (Kanarese). On the same rock. Records the setting up of a Jain image, “by the Jain preceptor Aryanandin". The erection of the image in the above epigraph is also attributed to this saint.
710 E. (do), do. A damaged record. P. 128. Arcot North District. Wandiwash tăluk.
742. Vedál : (Tamil). A record in the fourteenth year of the Pallava king Nandi. Mentions Vīdál and Viļār-paļļi (probably) the Jain temple at Vidal.
743. A damaged record. Mentions Mädevi Arindamangalam also spelt Mädevirandamangalam.
744. A record in the 14th year of the Chola king Rājakesarivarman. Mentions Kanakavīra-Kuratti, a disciple of Kuņakirttibhattarar,
Vill P. 175. Arcot South District, Gingee tăluk.
389. Singavaram : (Tamil). On a rock in the Tirunātharkunru. Records the nisidika of Iļaiyappadārar who fasted for 30 days. The reference is to the Jain habit of religious suicide.
390. (Archaic Vațțeļuttu). Records the nisidika of Chandrānandiacharya who fasted for 57 days.
IX P. 178. Arcot South Dist. Tindivanam taluk.
407. Olakkūr: (Tamil). In Archaic characters of the Pallava or the early 'Ganga-Pallava' period. On a slab set up in the Brahman street in village Olakkūr: Records that the muchworn image at the top of the slab was caused to be cut by the king. The image itself,
