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Nāgadeva Heggaḍe, who presented it to Sri Gomata Deva.1 In order to keep in tact the award so made, sometimes formal agreements were made between the Jaina monks on the one hand and the donors on the other. Such a pact can best be illustrated by an example. In A. D. 1280 the officiating priests (pūjakārigaluodambattu) of the Nakhara Jinalaya, made the following agreement with all the citizens of the Belgola tirtha. The wet and dry lands of this temple were to be cultivated and "devoting the produce to the eight kinks of worship of the god (we) will make without fail the offerings appointed by the citizens. Whoso of our family shall sell, mortgage or give on contract the wet and dry lands bestowed upon the god, is a traitor to the king and a trailor to the congregation Thus have we agreed and written Therefore such a pact implied that it was binding on the priests to observe unfailingly the appointed rites and not to either sell, mortgage or give on contract any of the gifted lands. The income and expenditure of such properties must have been watched as can be inferred from an inscription, dated A D. 1296. In this year the assembly of the Śri Mula Sangha decided first, that whatever they had been obtained as income from the paddy-lands and dry-fields, together with the waste land, the fire-wood, leave, decay of the basadi house and so forth, was to continue in tact. Secondly, all the jewel-citizens (jewellers) of Belgola, the farmers and subjects, ordained that five gadyana, which a certain Sambhu Deva had unlawfully disposed of to Sri Vallabha Deva's Haḍuvarahallı, should be expended on the festivals of those gods and that the eight rights of possession, with the petty taxes (kirkula), whatever they might be, of that village, should be expended on the festivals of those gods and Vallabhadeva Such a decision implied that wrongful appropriation from one head to another head of account was not tolerated and was branded as 22 unlawful” (anyāyavāgi malabrayavāgı) Moreover it meant that income from one specified plot of land was to be
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THE JAINA ANTIQUARY.
1. 122, p 172.
2. 134, p. 178, texι p. 99 itu mādīpadam rāja d(r)ohi samay d(†) Drohigalendu
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