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temples at Kopana, Sravana-Belgoļa and other holy places; he died by the rite of Sannyasana. Ganga-Raja's son, Boppa drove out the Kongas and other arrogant adversaies who were thorns to the country ; he built the Jain temple Trailokya-Ranjana (Boppana-chaityalaya) and the Pārsvanāth-basti (Drohagharatta-Jinalaya). He also built the śāntiśvara-basti at Kambadahalli. He was probably the Boppana, the general of BittiDeva; he gained a victory at Halasur.
Closely related to Ganga-Rāja were the generals Mariyāne and his brother Bharata; both were generals under Vishņuvardhana and his son Narasimha I. Bharata erected the two images of Bharata and Bahubali, the sons of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara, at Śravana-Belgola. He is credited with the building of eighty new bastis and renovating two hundred old ones in Gangavadi. An equally famous general was Punisa, who was the conqueror of the Nilgiris; he employed his wealth in restoring Jain bastis throughout Gangavadi as they were in the days of the Gangas. The Pārsvanātha-basti at Chāmarā. janagar was founded by him. His gurl was Ajitasena panditadeva. He built the Mulasthāna-basadi of Vishnuvardhana. Poyasala-Jinālaya at Bsati-Hoskote, where his wife also built a stone basadi ; her name was Dandanayakitti Jakkiyabbe.
Another general was Vishņu or Bittiyanna, and surnamed Immadi-dandanayaka; he received his education under Śripāla a celebrated Jain teacher and logician of the time. His father was an old minister of the time of Ereyanga. The king treated him like a son
Pergade Vasudeva, his son Udavāditya erected a Jina temple called Vasudeva Jinabasti in his father's name.
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A feudatory described by the names Bitti-Deva, Vishnu sämanta and Vishnuvardhana, apparently after the king; he built Jinālayas also.
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King Bitti Deva (Vishņuvardhana), his domestic life: he had a number of queens; of these, Santala Devi was at first a strenuous upholder of the Jain faith but later embraced Vaishṇavism; she
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