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viz., Subhachandra, Maunidēva and Mäghanandi. The inscription is badly damaged and the slab bearing the record was found lying in the Panchalinga temple.' Kantļūru gaņa mentioned in the epigraph from Hullūr in the Bijāpar District noticed above, is evidently identical with this Kaņdūr gana of the Yāpanīya Samgha.
BADLI: With the stimulating support of the rulers of the Ratta house the Jaina preceptors appear to have expanded their activities and developed new centres of the faith in the territory. One such was Badli not far away from Hüli in the same taluk. A mutilated inscription built into & modern temple, mentions Ganga-Kandarpa Brahma Jinālaya and seems to register certain gifts made to the temple in the reign of a Hoysala king who may be identified with Vira Ballāļa II (A. D. 1173-1220). As GangaKandarpa was one of the titles borne by the Ganga prince Mārasimhas (AD. 961-74), the Brahma Jinālaya with which this title was associated, was probably built by him at Baļli.
A fragmentary epigraph lying in the Nārāyaṇa temple of the same village refers to Mahămaņdalēśvara Lakshma or Lakshmidēva II of the Ratta family and is dated in A. D. 1219. It gives the genealogical account of a line of teachers apparently belonging to the Yāpanīya Samgha and Kāreya gaņa. An important member of the line was Mahāmaņdalāchārya Madhava Bhattāraka in whose time the preceptors seem to have buen elevated to the status of ecclesiastical heads of the region as indicated by the title Mahāmaņdalāchārya. The record seems to mention the following other teachers of the line: Vinayadēva, Jinadēva, Kanakaprabha and Sridhara Traividya. As both these records are fragmentary no more information can be gleaned about the Jaina activities in this place.
HANNIKĒRI: The Ratta ruler Lakshmidõva I figures, in an inscription from Hannikëri, near Sampgaon, as the patron of the Yāpaniya monastio order. The epigraph is dated in A. D. 1209 and introduces an influential line of preceptors who belonged to the Yāpanīya Samgha, Mailāpa anvaya and Kāreya gaṇa. They were Kanakaprabha I, his pupil Traividya-ch-krāśvara Sridharadēva and the latter's disciple Kanakaprabha II. Kanakaprabha II was highly renowned and respected in the province of Kūņdi. This teacher was recipient of a gift of land made to the temple of Pārsvanātha, built by Aminagāvunda at Chinchuņike with the approval of Lakshmidēva I who was ruling from his capital at Veņugrāma.
1 Ep. Ind., Vol. XVIII, pp. 201 ff. 2 An. Rep. on Kannada Research in Bombay Province, 1939-40, p. 66, No. 29. 3 Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, p. 108. 4 Karnatak Iuscriptions, Vol. 1, No. 32. 6 K. G, Kundangar: Inscriptions in Northern Karnataka and Kolhapur State, No. 22.
