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4. JAINIKY IN KARNATAKA general named Jaina Mallapa. This Mallapa received gift of the village Changapura (modern Sangūr) from his superior, probably, for his faithful ser vioes Mallapa died at Gutti in the cyclic year Nala corresponding to A. D. 1377. His son was Sangamadēva. He also died in course of time by drowning himself in the sea in a. D 1395. Sangamadēva's son Nāmaņņa made a gift of land to the temple of Pārsvanātha of Sangür for conducting worship to the tombs of his ancestors who had died by the vow of voluntary death. The epigraph may be roughly ascribed to the 15th century A. D.
TAE SILAHĀRAS OF BASAVURA: A petty family of the Silāhāra stock was ruling in this area for more than four centuries and it deserves to be noticed that the members of this house consistently maintained their devotion to the Jaina doctrine. On account of their association with the administration of the area of Bāsavura, they may be conveniently called the Silāhāras of Bāsavura. Their praśasti avers that they were born in the lineage of Jimūtavāhana and belonged to the Khachara race; and from the other epithets therein it may be gathered that they bore the serpent emblem on their banner and were worshippers of the goddess Padmāvati.
The earliest known member of this house was Kaliyammarasa who was holding the office of Nālgāmundu in the reign of the Rashtrakūța emperor Amõghavarsha Nripatunga in the 9th century A. D. During the subsequent regimes of the Western Chālukyas of Kalyāņa and the Yādavas of Dēvagiri the status of this family seeins to have been raised; for the then members this house are seen styling themselves as the Mahāsākuantas and the Mahāmundalīśvaras. These chiefs held authority essentially over the tract of Bāsa. vura consisting of 140 villages, which appears to have been their native region. This fact is frequently mentioned in the epigraphs. Inscriptions referring to their activities hail from Kõļūr, Dāvagēri and other places in the Hāvēri taluk.
Gurras: Another family of petty chiefs living in this area, who gained some prominence in the history of Karnataka in the 11-12th century A. D., lent their support to Jainism. These were the Guttus of Guttal. This is gathered from an inscription found at Guttal in the Hávõri taluk. The epigraph, dated in A. D. ¡162, refers to the rule of the Mahamandalēsvara
madityarasa of the Gutta house and registers a gift of land made by him to the temple of Pārsvanātha constructed by Kētisetti. The record
1 Bāsavura which was the headquarters of these chiefs may be identified with the modern
village Hire Băsūr in the Hängal taluk. I have explored the place personally. It possesses traces of an old fort on the overhanging bill and other antiquities. The place
is referred to as Vyäsapura in a local inscription of the 12th century A. D. 2 An. Rep. (op. cit.), 1932-33, Appendix D, Nos. 10, 12, 19, 24, 32, eto.; and Ep. Ind.,
Vol. XIX, pp. 180 ff.
