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and built several houses near the basadi. In 10781 Māci Setti and his younger brother Kali Setti gave a gift of land together with customs dues for the maintenance of the NakharaJainālaya at Śravana Beļgola. Similar endowment of land is referred to in a donative record of 1080° which records the construction of a Jaina temple in Shikarpur by Biņcya Bammu Selți and registers a gift of land for its maintenance.
Apart from gifts of land and village, merchants are also recorded to have donated gold, oil-mills, gardens and money in cash for the benefit of Jaina sanctuaries. In 10593 Biaya Sețți made a gift of gold for the Nagara Jinālaya at Dambal in the Dharwar district. In 10964 Sovi Seçti gave a gift of garden to Cãrukīrti-Pandita of the Yápaniya sangha at Doni in the same district. Nolabbi Setti donated two vil mills 2014 gardens for the Trikūta Jinālaya in 1125, Still another record of Sravana-Belgoļa, dated 1175 tells us that all the merchants of this holy place promised to pay annually certain dues on Coral to provide for flowers in the Jaina temples of Gommatadeva and Pārsvadeva, That the Karnataka merchanis made lavish donations to Jaina religious institutions is amply proved by no less than ten examples of land and village endowments recorded in the 12th century epigraphs.
Donative records of the merchants also indicate the growing authority of the trading communities over the religious bodies during the 12th-13th centuries. Thus in a record of 1105 the merchants of Sravana-Belgoļa arc said to have been entrusced with the task of protecting the Nagara Jinālaya built by the Hoysala minister Någadeva.? In the same record,
1. EG, xit, Tp. 101, pp 6:-2. 2. Ibid. vii, Sk. 8, p. 39. 3. BKI, i, pt. i, no. 94,p. 89.
Ibid 1, pt ii, no 140, p. 169 - 5. EC, ii, SB 211, p. 103. b, EC, vii, Sh 37, A D. 1115, p 23; EC, ii, SB 137, AD 1117, P 64;
EC, iv, Ng. 103, A.D. 1120, p 141; ibid iv, Kr. 3, AD. 1 125, p. 99; MAR, 1030, p. 247; KT. 1, pp. 63-4; MAR, 1943, p. 75; EC, v, Hn. 129, A.D. 1140, p. 36; ibid. v, Ak. 1, AD 1169, pp. 112-3; ibid. iv,
Ng. 70, A.D. 1178, P. 130. 7. EC, ir, SB 335, pp. 1424.
