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yabbe 1 another lady, gave a piece of land and 3 gold gadjänas to the basadı which she had built in Vandavara in the 10th century Similar examples of women of the ruling class, who gained eminence for crecting basadis and maintaining them with endowments of land and village, are availablc from the 11th 12th centurics In 1007 Attimabbe the safe of the general Nagadeva constructed a Jaina temple at Lakhundi in the Gadag talug of the Dharwar district and endowed it with the gift of land The gift nas handed over to Arbanandı-Pandita of the Surastra gana and Kaurur gaccha" In about 1050 Poccabbarsı built a basadı and endowed it with land in 1058 3 Malala Devi, wife of Kirtideva constructed another Jaina temple in 1077 and granted the village Sıddani in Kuppatűr Kälıyakka, the wife of an official of the western Calukya king Tribhuvanamalla Deva, caused to be made a Jaina temple in Sambanur in the Davangere taluq of the Chitaldroog district in 1128 and gavc a gift of land for the services of the god and for the maintenance of priests living there 5 Epigraphic evidence from early medieval Karnataka may be adduced to prove that often such state officers as villageheadmen who figure in inscriptions as galundas also made munificent endowments to the Jaina monasteries An undated epigraph assigned to the middle of the Sth century registers a gift of land for the charity house attached to the Jaina monastery constructed by Dharmagavunda It also records a grant of wet land for the benefit of the same Jaina temple by Donagavunda 6 Nagamayya son of the gavindasvamı of Tairur, built a stone temple of Jinendra and gave one handuga of land for its maintenance in the 9th century * In 933 Ballajja, the gāvunda of Kavujageri donated land for the Jaina temples and mathas crected by him at Kavujageri and other places in the Ron taluq of the Dharwar district & In 959 the gavunda
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SII 1X pt i no 62 P 35 BKI 1 pt i no 52 p 39 EC 1x, Cg 35 37 P 13 4 Ibid viu Sb 269 PP 412 Ibid X1 Dg 90 pp 68 9 AI, 1, no 3 pp 45 CC 111 Md 13 P 38 BIT i pt i no 3 p 21
