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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 291. Kotturu was once a stronghold of the Jains. Basappa Vanquished the Jains of the place in controversy and converted them to the Lingāyet faith, and set up a lingain in their principal temple. This temple is now known as the Murukallu-math. It is an unusually good specimen of an undoubtedly Jain temple.
Pp. 300-301. In the Rayadrug tāluk office there is a Jain image of a nude male figure, fully described. The whole sculpture is executed with much detail and finish. Along the foot of it runs an inscription.
There are some Jain antiquities in Rayadrug. These are carvings on rocks known as "Rasa Siddha's hermitage”.
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FRANCIS, W. Anantapur. Vol. 1. (MDG). Madras, 1905.
P. 26. In this district the Jains number only some 300 and twothirds of these are found in one tāluk, Madakasira.
P. 15.1. At Gooty the interior of the little shrine at the foot of the citadel rock has a Jain flavour.
Pp. 161-162. Konakondla was at one time a centre of Jainism, and it is (except Kambaduru) the only village in the north or centre of the district which contains any traces of the former prevalence of that faith. Many Jains images and inscriptions near the village.
P. 176. The architecture in the three temples of interest in the village Kambaduru contains traces of Jain influence. The one called "The Chola temple” is in style Chalukyan-Fully described.
P. 178. There is an old Jain temple in the village Agali containing a nude image of one of the Tirtharkaras.
P. 179. In the new Jain temple at Amarpur is an old stone bearing nude figure and an inscription in old Canarese. A similar stone surmounted by two nude figures, bearing an inscription, is in the Añjaneya temple in Tammadahalli.
P. 185. At Ratnagari is an old Jain temple.
P. 194. Among the lesser antiquities of Penukonda may be noted two Jain temples.
