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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM varmā who belonged to the Pasiņdi Ganga family. Nāgavarmā, who was also known as Ganga Rāja, together with his sister's brother named Tulu-adi, who was called "a sun to the Kadamba family", granted the village of Mallavaļļi situated in the Tagare country to the Jina caityalaya in the village of Toļļa located in the same country. It is interesting to observe that a pious and virtuous (Brahman) of the Kausika-varśa by namje Manaļi Mane-odeyon made a grant of land (for the same purpose) and that the seventy-six pradhānar (nobles, lit. ministers) were witnesses to the grant.1
To the feudatories of the Gangas, no less than to the Gangas themselves, the Jaina gurus acted as political instructors. One such example of a guru is that of Vimalacandra Ācārya, the disciple of Kīrtinandi Ācārya, of the original Mūla sangha, Eregittūr gaña and the Pulikal gaccha. A copper plate grant dated A.D. 776 affirms that “By the religious instruction of this great își (having become) the confounder of the Bāņa-kula” was Dundu, the Nirgunda Yuvarāja. The principality of Nirgunda may have been somewhere in the south-west of the Chitaldroog district.3
Among the Rāştrakūta nobles was Cāki Rāja, who was the disciple of the Jain sage Arakīrti whose guru was Vijayakirti of the Yāpaņiya-Nandi sangha and the Punnāgavşkşamūla gana. This nobleman, who is styled in the Kadaba plates dated A.D. 812 which give us this information, an adhirāja of the entire (aśeşa) Gangamandala, applied to his lord king Govinda III, Prabhūtavarşa, to bestow the village named Jālamangala (situation given) on the Jaina guru mentioned above for the Jinendra temple at Silāgrāma on the western
1. M. A. R. for 1920, p. 28. 2. E. C. IV, Ng. 85, p. 135. 3. Ibid., Intr. p. 9.
