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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
17. Kövilangulam (Tamil). On the west and south bases of the Ambalappasvami temple. A record in the forty-eighth year of the Chōla king Tribhuvanachakravartin Kulottunga-Choladeva (I?). A golden vimana with a mantapa to Mukkudaiyar was constructed by 25 Jains at Kmbanur in Sengattirukkai a subdivision of Venbu-valanādu. Two copper images of "the god of the three umbrellas" and Yakshi were also presented. It is also stated that land for a temple site and a watershed for the use of Jain devotees were given Unique literary style.
P. 1163. Pallimadam: This place, called in inscription Tiruchchuliyal Pallimadai, was a devadana village in Paruttikkudināḍu.
30. (Tamil, Vatteluttu). On the north base of the Kalanathasvämin temple. Records gift of 50 sheep by Sattangari for a lamp to the temple of Tirukkattamballideva at Kurandi in Venbunāḍu Kunandi was evidently a very important Jain centre in the south of the peninsula. See Md. 99, 100 and 105.
P. 1196, Ramnäḍ Dist., Tiruvadanai taluk.
279. Hanumantagudi: (Tamil). On stones lying in front of the Malavanatha (Jaina) temple. A fragment of record in $ 1455, expired, of the Vijayanagara king whose name is lost. One of them mentions Jinendramangalam alias Kuruvadimidi... in Muttooru-kurram and Añjukottai in the same Kurram.
Pp. 1211-12. Salem Dist., Dharmapuri taluk.
Dharmapuri: Known in the 9th cent. as Tagaḍür. It was a famous city with rich temples, pleasure-gardens and high enclosure walls, a centre of Jainism and Śaivism. The still attractive temple of Mallikarjuna, the Jain sculptures in the Ramakka tank and Adhamankoṭṭai and the archaic epigraphs show its importance in antiquity in the age of the Chera kings. Till about 931 A. D. it was the capital of the Nolambas.
74. (Kanarese). On the four faces of a pillar built into the floor of the mantapa in front of the Mallikarjuna temple. A record of king Mahendra-dhirajaNolamba in S. 815, Paridhavin. Records a grant to a Jain basadi by a certain Nidhiyanna and Chandiyanna. The former received from the king the village of Mulapalli which he made over to Kanakasena Sidhanta Bhațăra, pupil of Vinayasena Siddhanta Bhattara of the Pogariyagana with the Senänvaya, Mulasangha etc. for the repairs of the basti.
75-76. Do. A record of the Pallava king to the same basadi.
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