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97 Pustaka gaccha. The Kongāļva chief caused the Satyavākya · Jinālaya to be built, and gave a specified village on its behalf to Prabhācandra Siddhānta.1
Like the Kongāļvas the Cangāļvas too showed marked savour to Jainism. These were lords, firstly, of the Canganäd (mod. Huņsūr tāluka in the Mysore State) and, then, of the western part of the Mysore district and a part of Coorg. They were devoted Saivas,2 but there is evidence to show that in the last quarter of the eleventh century and the first quarter of the twelfth century A.D., the Cangāļvas gave material support to the Jina dharma. In A.D. 1091 the Cangāļva chief Mariyapērggade Pilduvayya gave specificd lands to Pilduvi īśvaradeva for feeding the poor (āhāradāni bahe mādalāgi). Since the word āhāradāni is a Jaina technical term referring to the Jaina formula of gifts as expressed in their phrase āhārābhaya bhaişajya-śāstradāna, it has been rightly inferred that the Cangāļva chief mentioned here was a Jaina by persuasion.3
This conclusion concerning the Cangāļvas is borne out by a record dated about A.D. 1100 which contains interesting details pertaining to the great Jaina centre Hanasoge (Panasoge) in the Yedatore tāluka of the Mysore State. The epigraph under discussion relates that there were sixty-four basadis in that city attached to the Deśiya gana, Hottage gaccha, Pustakānvaya, and Mula sangha. These had been set up by Rāma, the son of Dasaratha, the elder brother of Lakşmaņa and the husband of Sītā, and born in the Ikşvāku kula. And to the basadi of the Bandatīrtha which had been constructed by Rāma, the Gangas had given gifts. And
1. M. A. R. for 1912-13. p. 32. 2. Rice, My. & Coorg, p. 142. 3. M. A. R. for 1925, p. 95.
