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Rāya (ninth century A.D.) whose story is intimately connected with the alchemic powers of the (Buddhist and later on Jaina ?) goddess Padmāvati of Pațți Pombuccapura (mod. Humcca in the Nagar tāluka).1 The Sāntaras ruled over the Šāntalige 1,000 which corresponded roughly with the modern Tīrthahalli tāluka and its neighbourhood. They were Jainas during the early part of their political career.2 Of the founder of the southern line of the śāntaras, Jinadatta Rāya, it is said in a record assigned to A.D. 950, that he granted Kumbhasikepura for the anointing of Jina. The stone inscription speaks of the Jina temple at that place and at Polalu for which the merchants (Seţțis) (named) made an endowment.3
Some time after came Tolāpuruşa Vikrama śāntara, who in A.D 897 had a basadi made for Moni (Mauni ?) Siddhanta Bhattāraka of the Kondakundānvaya and endowed it with certain lands. He was the same Vikramaditya Sāntara who constructed the Guddada basti at Humcca and had it dedicated to Bāhubali in the next year A.D. 898.5 Bhujabala Sāntara, who after his overlord the Western Cālukya monarch Trailokyamalla Deva, had the second name of Trailokyamalla, so we gather from a stone inscription dated A.D. 1066, constructed a Jinālaya called Bhujabala śāntara Jinālaya in his capital at Pombucca, and granted the village of
1. On the Sāntaras, and the date of Jindatta Rāya, read Rice, My. & Coorg., pp. 138, seq; Saletore, Ancient Karnataka, I, pp. 224, 225, n. (1).
2. Rice, ibid., pp. 138-139. 3. E. C. VII, Sk. 114, p. 37. 4. Ibid., VIII, Nr. 60, p. 154.
5. M. A. R. for 1929, p. 7. The reference given to E. C. VIII, Nr. 35, cannot be traced.
