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REVIEW AND RETROSPHOT
Adverting to the Anesejjeya-basadi, mentioned above, we may note that it was erected by Kunkumamahādēvi, sister of Chālukya Vijayāditya, as stated in a later eleventh century inscription from Gudigere. This statement is confirmed by a contemporary copper plate charter of this king, recently discovered at Shiggaon. The record which is dated A. D. 718, speaks of a Jaina temple constructed by Kunkumadēvi at Purigere and the royal grant of the village Guddigere made in its favour. It would be reasonable to assume that one and the same Jaina temple is referred to in both these epigraphs.
An important line of teachers who had settled here from early centuries, belonged to the Dāva gaña of the Mūla Samgha. Pūjyapāda and his disciple Udayadēva Pandita or Niravadya Paņdita who was a preceptor of the Western Chālukya king Vinayāditya, figure in an inscription of the early 8th century. Rāmadēvāchārya, his pupil Jayadēva and the latter's pupil Sri-Vijayadēva are mentioned in a record slightly later than the above. An epigraph of the 11th century speaks of Dēvēndra Bhattāraka, his disciple Ekadēva and the latter's disciple Jayadova Pandita. Gaņdavimukta Bhattāraka and his pupil Tribhuvanachandra Papdita, of the Mula Smgha and Balātkāra gaña, introduced by an inscription of A. D. 1074 are evidently identical with Gaņdavimukta II and Tribhuvanachandra of the Aņņigēri epigraph reviewed above. Śrīnandi Pandita and his elder brother Bbāskaranandi Pandita who belonged to the Sūrastha gana are known from an inscription of a. D. 1077. Indrakirti Pandita who was the priest of the Goggiya-basadi figures in an inscription of the reign of Bhūlokamalla or Sõmāśvara 111. There lived in the 13th century an influential teacher named Rājaguru Padmasēna who was responsible for the renovation of SriVijaya-jinālaya. In two inscriptions of the 15th and 16th centuries are mentioned Hēmaņācharya, Hēmadēvāchārya and Sankhaņāchārya, as connected with Sankha-basadi.In regard to the Dēva gaņa noted above, we have noticed its occurrence in an earlier context also in a record from Lakkundi. This gaña appears to be indentical with the more familiar denomination Dēsiya gana."
Interesting is the information furnished by an inscription at Rāņābennür dated A. D. 859. This epigraph speaks of a gift of land made to Nāganandyāchārya of the Singhavura gaña in favour of a Jaina temple constructed by Nāgulara Pollabbe. Singhavura is evidently derived from Simhapura and this name of a gana is not known previously. Equally interesting is the disclosure made by an epigraph at Mõțebennür in the same taluk dated A. D. 1066. While
1 Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII, pp. 37-38; An. Rep. on Epigraphy, 1945–46, A, No. 49. 2 Ind. Ant., Vol. VII, pp. 104 ff. and An, Rep. on 8. I. Epigraphy, 1935-36, App. E, Nos. 6
9, 18, 28-29, eto. 3 Vide above, p. 141. 4 Ibid., p. 223. 6 An. Rep. eto for 1933-34, App. E, No. 116.
