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Pp. 99-101. Bitti Deva - exchanging Jaina faith with Visnuvardhana. His first wife Santala Devi and his General Hulla were some of the foremost upholders of Jainism.
P. 106. Narasimha III (Hoysala) visited Vijaya Pārsva temple at Halebid, and read his genealogy.
Pp. 113-114. Bukka Rāya-his reconciliation of the Jains and the Vaişnavas, the latter persecuting the former.
P. 138. Jainsdatta, founder of the Santara Kingdom; Jain goddess bestowed on him the power to transmute iron into gold. The rulers on this line eventually became Lingāyatis, but had Jain wives.
Pp. 141-142. The Changalvas first met with in Jain inscriptions at Panasoge or Hanasoge. Rāma (son of Daśaratha, brother of Lakshmaņa and husband of Sitā) erected 64 basadis at Panasoge. Jain priests of the Hottage (or Pustaka) gachcha claim jurisdiction over these basadis and at Tale-Kaveri (in Coorg). One of the basadis set up by Rāma had been endowed by the Gangas and was rebuilt by King Nanni Changalva.
P. 145. The Kongalva Kings were Jains. Grants by Sugani Devi (Kongalva) to basadis at Mullur (in Coorg).
P. 146. Punnata, an ancient Kingdom and Jain migration. P. 148. The Senavaras were Jains; their inscription in West Kadur district.
P. 152.
The Saluvas (or Salvas) originally Jains, Sangitapura (Haduvalli).
P 168. Priests played prominent part in political affairs and their advice ever deemed of importance Megasthenes says of the Sarmanes (the Jain Sramaņas) who live in the woods that kings consult them regarding the causes of things. In the second century A.D. the Jain Achārya Simhanandi made the Ganga Kingdom. In eleventh century a Jain Yati put the Hoysaļas in possession of their Kingdom.
P. 180. Kayadala chief supported all creeds including Jainism.
P. 185. The Jain vow or Sallekhana was the orthodox mode of emancipation from the body when life could no longer be endured, and the instances of its performance are numerous, especially at Sravana Belgo!a, from the earliest times.
Pp. 196-201. The Jains were the first cultivators of the Kannada language. Samantabhadra, author of Gandhahasti-mahabha sya; Pujjyapāda alias Devanandi,
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