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REVIEW AND RETROSPECT
Research is proyresive. Its progress depends upon the activities of the persons engaged in it leading to new light and fresh discoveries. The major part of the present work was put into shape about a decade ago. Some new material, mainly epigraphical, has been explored since, and a few sources have been restudied and assessed in the meanwhile. As these are found to bear intimate relationship with what has been discussed earlier in this volume, it is considered necessary to review some of them here briefly.
I JAINISM IN KARNATAKA
More Facts Of all the areas in Karnāțaka, Dharwar Dist. has yielded on the whole considerably large, and nonetheless valuable, number of Jaina antiquities of various kinds. These show that many renowned Jaina teachers and institutions of different sects and orders, including the Yāpaniyas, flourished here.
Aņņigēri in the Navalgund taluk was an early stronghold of this faith. The epigraph engraved on a pillar set up in front of the Banaśankarī temple, dated circa 751 A. D., speaks of the erection of a Jaina temple by Kaliyamma, the headman of Jēbulagori. Aạnigere is described as the rājadhāni of the Belvala country in an inscription of the place belonging to the 11th century About a century later, we have an epigraph on a slab set up in front of the temple of Purada Virappa. This recorde bearing a date in A. D. 1184 contains an allusion to a group of five Jaina temples and another Jaina temple named Permāļi. A teacher named Sõmadēva who belonged to the Müla Saṁgha and Kondakunda anvaya figures in another inscription in the Jaina basti, of A. D. 1267
Two mutually supplementary inscriptions from Gāwarwād and Annigēri dated in A. D. 1071-72 in the reign of Sõmēśvara II, furnish an interesting account of the Jaina institutions that thrived at Annigēri. Sometime in the previous century when Ganga-Permāļi Būtuga II was governing the Belvala region, he enhanced the glory of the city of Aņņigere, built there a Jaina temple and endowed it sumptuously. This temple which became famous as Permāļi Jinā laya after its founder, must be the one noted above. The trusteeship of this temple was handed down in a line of teachers who belonged to the Balātkāra gana of the Nandi Samgha which was a branch of the Müla Samgha. Their
1 Bomb. Kärn. Inss., Vol. I, pt. I, No. 6. 2 Ibid., No. 115. 3 An. Rep. on 8, I. Epigraphy, 1928-29, App. E, No. 207. 4 Ibid., No. 204, 6 Ep. Ind. Vol. XV, pp. 337 ff.
