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king Krsna Ill through an endon ment made to Satyārasibhatāra 1 In 968 the wife of the fcudatory chief Pandiga crected a monastery at Kākambal and granted it two villages, Madalur and Malagavādı, converting them into freehold estates"
Monarchs as well as the people of Karnataka continued the tradition of crccting monasteries and endowing them with rich gifts of land and village for their maintenance in the 11th-12th centuries Tuo stone inscriptions from Kogalı in the Bellary district demonstrate the Jaina leanings of the later Câlulya kıng Somesvara I The first record, which is undated, registers the gift of land for the Conna Pārsva basadı In another record of 1035 6 the same king is recorded to have donated land for the Jaina ascetic Indrahertı 3 The Bandanıhe basla inscription of 10754 refers to Somesvara II's endowment of land for the Santinatha basadi in the Shiharpur taluq Kulacandradeva of the Mula sangha and Krānārgana is recorded to have received the gift The Hoysala hings also figure in the cpigraphs as the builders of Jaina monasteries In the Gandhavārana bastı inscription, dated 1131,5 Vinayaditya II is recorded to have made a number of Jaina basadis at Sravana Belgola In 11336 and 1136,7 Visnuvardhana Deva is said to have donated the village of Jāvagal for thc Vijaya Pārsvadeva Jinälava and built a Jaina temple known as Visnuvardhana-sınālaya in Dorasamudra
The common people, on the other hand, are also noted for similar attempts of temple construction Govadeva, a feudators chief, builds a Jaina temple at Heggere in the Tumkur district, for which his son donates land for eight kinds of worship and for providing food to the ascetics in 1160 8 In the same year the Hoysala gāvunda also builds a Jaina basadı 1 Top List of Inscriptions, 1, p 265 2 EC xi, Cd 14, p 16 3 BA Saletore, op cit, p53
EC, vu SL 221, p 131
Ibid 11, SB 143, pp 70 1 6 Ibid v BL 124, P 83 7 Ibid BL 17 PP 48 51 8 Ibid x11 Cl, 21, pp 77-8
