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six essential dutics of the Jaina houscholders?, and this is corToborated by a large number of Jaina epigraphs which record gifts either for the Jaina monks or Jaina establishments.
Dana-salas or charity houses are often attached to the Jaina basadis, as can be shown from the inscriptions of the 7th-8th centuries. In 683, the western Cālukya king Vinayaditya granted the village named Hadagile situated in Beluvala300 for a dāna-śālā.2 In 730 Vijayāditya, another king of the same dynasty, donated the village Kaddama to the south of Purikaranagara for the maintenance of a charity house, attached to the Saikha-Jinendra temple at modern Lakshmesvara in the district of Dharwar.3 Five years later, Vikramāditya II granted 50 nivartanas of land for meeting the cost of expenditure of almshouse, which was attached to the Dhavala-Jinālaya at the same place. The practice continues in subsequent times. The rich and pious Jainas delighted in making endowments for maintaining charity houses and establishing new ones for advancing the cause of dana or charity. It is substantiated by the donative records of the 10th-12th centuries. An epigraph of the 10th century registers the gift of a tank for the charity house attached to the Jaina temple at Naragel in the district of Dharwar.5 Another epigraph of the llth century refers to the donation of some land for the Saiyakratnākara basadi at Mugad in the district of Dharwar and the income incurred from that land was to be utilised for feeding the visitors. In 1074 the mahāsāmanta Käțarsa gave gifts of land for the benefit of the charity house of the Ganga-Permāợi Jaina temple at Aņnigcre in the Navalgund taluq.? The Sāntara kings donated two villages for providing food to the Jaina monks living in the Pañcakūta basadi in the Nagar taluq of Shimoga district. We have similar
1. rašastılaka, pt. ii, BK, viii, Section 46, p. 414 2. BKI, 1v, no. 4, p. 3. 3. Ibid. no. 6, p.o. 4. Ibid. no. 7, p. 7. 5. Ibid, i, pt. i, no. 38, p. 23. 6. Ibid. no. 78, p. 08. 7. ET, xv, no. 23, p. 346. 8. EC, viii, Nr. 40, A D. 1077, p. 144.
