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4. Tāra ani Kudupita avan an Kanam, i. e. Tāra Aņi caused the cave and the drain to be made.
5. The word Mattirai is engraved here is probably Madura and 'pon Kulavan' and 'Kula Vānigan' are perhaps the names of persons who were dealers in gold and grains.
From a Jain settlement Alagarkoyil turned into a Hindu one in the time of Nakkirar. Alagarmalai identified with Palamudirsolai.
(125.- Alagarkoyil is also referred to in Silappadikāram (Silapp. II, V. 91).
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D: B. DISKALKAR.- Bali Inscription of Kumarapal of V.S. 1216-(P. O. Vol. I; 1936-37).
- P. 45....though Kumarapāl was converted to Jainism, as the Jain accounts say, he was not averse to employing the Brahmanas-see f. n. 4...
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"D. M. Diskalkar.-Girnar Inscription of the Time of Bhima. (II) of V. S. (I) 256(P, O. Vol. I; 1936-37).
: P. 45. The inscription in a niche containing the image of Nandisvara to the north-west of the temple of Sangrāma Soni on the Giroār Hill .....It is Sanskrit poetry. The record opens with the date, Friday, the 13th of the bright fortnight of the month of Jayeștha of the (Vikrama) Samvat (1) 256, records the son of the general of the Chalukya king Kumarapāl was named Abhayad, who was very much devoted towards the Jain religion.
v. s. 1256 falls in the reign of Chālukya sovereign Bhima II-Christian date corresponding to the one in the record is Sunday the 28th May, 1200 A. D. Text given.
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Dasaratha SHARMA. The Jāngula Inscription of v. s. 1176. (Jain Ant. vol. IV; No. II ; Arrah ; 1938; P. 63).
Inscription in the Daga Mahavira temple, Bikaner. It records the setting up of an image of Sri Sảntinātha at Jāngalukupa in v. s. 1176. Text given.
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