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JAINISM IN SOUTH INDIA A scrutiny will show that this list is not complete. The succession of teachers as in some other similar cases does not seem to represent an unbroken chain and many a gap is conceivable particularly in tha earlier stages of the pedigree. Some inscriptions at Sravaņa Belgoļa contain genealogical accounts of different lines of Jaina pontiffs who belonged to the Dēsi gana of the Müla Samgha. References to the Jaina teachers who were constituents of the Dēsi gana and Pustaka gachchha could be traced in a large number of inscriptions discovered in various parts of Karnāțaka, including Mysore. But barrring the identity of a few names here and there, most of the teachers enumerated in the above list appear to be new and so far unknown. Considering the fact that the gift was left in charge of the teacher Balachandra Siddhantadēva who was to supervise its proper management, it may be assumed that he lived either at Hadangile itself (identified with modern Hunasi-Hadagali) or some place not far away in that area.
The high official who was instrumental in securing the king's approval for the gift was Bhivaņayya. His designation stated in full is as follows: Mahápradhāna (Chief Minister), Manevergade (Superintendent of Home Affairs), Sabavāsigal-adhishthāyaka (Leader of the Sahavāsis ), Pattale-karana (Commissioner of Records), Manneyar-adhyaksha (Head of the Subordinate Chiefs) and Daņdanāyaka (Commander of the Forces). In different official capacities and with some variations of titles he figures in other records of about the same period.
The inscription mentions the following names of geographical interest. Alande Sāsira or Alande One Thousand is mentioned in lines 15 and 47: the same is referred to as Alande Nādu in 1. 18. We come across references to this territorial division in the epigraphs of this area. This tract is alluded to in
passing manner in an inscription from Chinna-Tumba!am, Adoni taluk, Bellary District."
This region consisting of one thousand villages, inoluded roughly a large portion of the modern Gulbarga District and a part of the Usmānābād District. Its headquaters must have been at Alande from which it took the name. This place is identical with modern Aland, a fairly big town about 27 miles to the northwest of Gulbarga. An inscription discovered at Aland itself speaks of the place as the chief village of the province of Alande One Thousand'. The same epigraph again refers to the place as Alandāpura, adding that it owed its sanctity to the presence of the god Sõmāśvara. It is thus
1 An. Rep. on 8. I. Epigraphy, 1928–29, Appendix E, No. 90, Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I,
pt. ii, p. 481, eto. % South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. IX, pt. i, No. 161, 1. 43. 3 Ep. Ind., Vol. XXVIII, p. 33.
