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4. JAINISM IN KARNATAKA söge section of the Müla Saṁgha, Kundakunda anyaya, Dēsi gana and Pustaka gachchha.
GõlihaĻĻ: This small village near Biļi in the Khānāpur taluk contains a Jaina inscription near a Siva temple outside the village. The epigraph is damaged; still the following information can be gathered from its perusal. After mentioning the reign of the Kalyāņa Chālukya king Bhūlākamalla or Sõmīśvara III the record gives an account of the Kadamba rulers of Goa. Next we are told that Angadiya Mallisetti erected & Jaina temple at Kiru Sampagādi, which appears to be the ancient name of Gõlihalli, with the support of certain sections of the trading community. Hereafter commences an elaborate account of a line of preceptors who belonged to the Müla Samgha and Balātkāra gaņa. But it is lost in parts. The first name in the pedigree is Vardhamāna which is followed by that of his disciple Vidyānanda. Next come Ashțõpavāsi, Pakshópavāsi Guņachandra, [ Kukkuțāsana] and Sridhara, all of whom appear to have been the disciples of Vardhamāna. These are succeeded by Chandrakirti and Möghachandra. Three co-preceptors, Nēmichandra, Vāsupūjya Traividya and Maleyāla Pandita are then mentioned and Kumudachandra after them. Three successive disciples of Kumudachandra were Vāsupūjya, Udayachandra and Tribhuvanadēva. It may be seen that some of the names in the above genealogy are identical with those in the Koņņūr inscription noticed above. The inscription bears the probable date A. D. 1175-76 in the reign of the Goa Kadamba princes Vira Permāļi-Vijayāditya and registers a gift of land to the Jaina temple.'
Hülr: The Jainas appear to have carved out a respectable position for themselves in the midst of the flourishing agrahāra town of Hüli in the Saundatti taluk. It is further important to note that teachers belonging to two different sections of the Yāpanīya Samgha thrived here. An inscription now found in the Virabhadra temple at Hüli, of the reign of Sõmēśvara I and dated in a. D. 1043 speaks of the piety of Lachchiyabbe who was the wife of the governor of the Kūņdi province and a generous benefactress. She constructed a Juina temple at Pūli (i, e., Hüli ) and made a gift of land for its maintenance, appointing Bālachandra Bhattārakadēva as the trustee in charge of the establishment. This preceptor belonged to the Yāpaniya Saṁgha and Punnāgavrikshamūla gaņa.' Another fragmentary epigraph of the reign of Vikramāditya VI refers to the Yāpaniya Samgha and Kaņdūr gana which was a monastic section of the Yāpanīyas. Bahubali was an early preceptor of this line. Three more teachers who were not, probably, før removed from the age of the record, are mentioned,
i Author's own stady. 2 Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII, pp. 172 ff.
