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attributes to $.300 ; (2) Gunabhadra, the teacher of Mandalapurusa, the author of the Chūdāmani Nigantu who was the contemporary of the Rāştrakūta Krişņa III ; and (3) Gunavira Pandita, the author of Neminātha and Vachchanandimalai. The last of these was the contemporary of Tribhuvanavīra or Kulottunga III]
388. On the walls of a mantapa at the base of Tirumalai rock. A record in the 12th year of Rājanārāyaṇa Sambuva-rāja, regarding the setting up a Jain image (Arhan) by a lady of Ponnür.
391. In a small sbrine below the painted cave. Records that one Arishtanemi āchārya of Kadaikottür, a pupil of Paravādimalla or Tirumalai, caused the image of a rakṣa to be made.
393-94. Doorway of the painted cave. A record of the king Vidukādalagiya Perumal (Vyāmuktaśravaņājvala), the Adigamän of the Chera race and Lord of of Takața (Tagadur). He was the son of Rājarāja and descendant of Yavanika, king of Kerala or Ealini, king of Vanji. Records the repair of a raksa and Yakşi, the presentation of a gong and the construction of a channel.
P. 108. Arcot North Dist., Walajapet taluk.
631. Panchapāndavamalai (near Arcot) also called Tiruppanmalai :
(Tamil) On a boulder, A record in the 50th year of the Pallava king Nandipottarasar, saying that the images of a rakṣi named Poniyakkiyār and a saint Nāganandin which are preserved to the present day were cut out of the rock by Nāranan, the son of Maruttuvar of Pugalālaimangalam. Takşas and Yaksis were guardian deities of Jain temples, see Des. Cat. Sans. Mss. XVI. Pp. 6367-8 for a work on their method of worship.
710 B. (Kanarese in Grantha characters). On the rock. A record of the Ganga King Rājmalla. 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 Bhavā. nand in 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 Nyaya, 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 Aryanan din". The erection of the image in the above epigraph is also attributed to this saint.
710 E. (do), do. A damaged record.
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