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P. 85. Jakkiyabbe, the widow of Sattarasa Nagarjjuna the nalgavunda was entrusted with the office of her husband by Krishna II. She died by performance of the Jain vow.
P. 111. Kirtivarmma in one of his records it is stated that he founded agraharas (seats of learning) where lived Brahman and Jain scholars; one of such agrahāras was the famous agrahāra of Kuppatur, and the tolerant spirit prevailing there'is expressed in the Kuppatur grant of Kirttivarmma. "By that consecrating priest Padmanandi-Siddhāntideva the crowned queen Malala Devi having had the Kuppatur Pārsvadeva-chaityālya well consecrated--she worshipped in the prescribed manner all the Brahmanas......of the immemorial agrahāra Kuppatur, and having the name of Brahma-Fainalaya given to it by them.
Pp. 115-116. Chāmunda Rāya Belagami inscriptions: One of his grants to the Basadi of the Balagāra.gaña connected with Jayahuti śāntinātha, it is dated A.D. 1048. The other grant (A.D. 1048) also to the same basadi of Balarar. This Jain congregation of Balagāra was held in high veneration for its au icerity--Kesavanandi an ascetic and disciple of Meghanandibhattāraka of the same gana, made this grant.
P. 119. Lakshmana's minister and chief treasurer śāntinātha, a distinguished Jain poet had the title of Sarasvatimukhamukura and was author of Sukumāracharita. He persuaded Lakshmaņa to build the wooden basadi of Mallikamoda Śāntinātha in Baligrama (Belagami).
P. 249. The Kadamba Kings were of a very tolerant disposition. This toleration is evidenced by the numerous grants they made to the Jains, which led Dr.J. F. Fleet, Mr. K. P. PATHAK and others to suppose that the Kadambas were of the Jain persuation. The error was however corrected by Dr. FLEET in the second edition of his Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts. The religion of the Kadambas was Brahmanism and not Jainism during the Kadamba rule.
P. 252. Jainism had always been a stumbling block in the path of progress of the Saiva religion.
King Kākusthavarmma granted the village of Kheta to Śrutakirti.
Mrigeśa and other kings made grants to the Jains Inscriptions refering to the Jaina ascetics such as Sveta pațas, Yāpaniyas, Kūrchakas and the Nirgathas (FLEET, Sanskrit and old Kanarese inscriptions I A. vii, p. 38; p. 34; King Ravivarmma used to cansult Kumāradatta. Jainism grew unchecked during the supremacy of the Kadambas and received fresh stimulus in the time of the
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