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centre Kōgaļi, prove that he was a pious Jaina. These two records refer to the gifts of gold which he made for the god Cenna Pārśva at Kõgaļī.1
While we have ample proof to show that Jainism still predominated in Karnātaka in the reign of the next and the last great Hoysala ruler Vira Ballāļa III, we are unable to determine how far he himself came under the influence of that religion. We shall see that there were profound causes for this apparent indifference to the syād vāda doctrine on the part of this remarkable ruler.
1. 33 and 34 of 1904 ; Rangacharya, Top. List., I, pp. 192-193.
