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MEDIEVAL JAINISM to the samc basadi Rājendra Coļa Nanni Cangāļva made gifts anew. The guru mentioned in the record is Jayakirtimuni, who was well known for his fasts and the candrāyaṇa rites. In this inscription it is said that for the four basadis of the Hottage gaccha in Panasoge and for those in TaļaKāverī, that congregation (of the Hottage gaccha) alone was the head. And as regards the same Cangāļva ruler, he is said to have constructed basadis belonging to the Desiya gana and the Pustaka gaccha in about A.D. 1025 and A.D. 1060.2
A solitary instance of a ruler who turned a recluse is mentioned in a record dated A.D. 1115. He is called Nutana Candila of the celebrated Golla country. The inscription relates that " for some reason” he became a munipa under the name of Gollācārya. Nothing can be determined about his identity for the present.
Examples of noble families which gave unstinted help to Jainism may be continued. The Silahāras of Karhād were patrons of that religion. One of the centres of Jainism within their jurisdiction was Ekkasambuge (mod. Eksambi in the Chikkodi tāluka of the Belgaum district). Here was the Nemīśvara basti two stone inscriptions of which dated A.D. 1165 refer to the reign of Vijayāditya and to the erection of that basadi in that year by the general Kāļana. The larger of these records is interesting in the sense that it gives the name of another Jaina congregation in Eksambi—the Punnāgavękşamūla gana of the Yāpaņīya sangha, and mentions also a Raţta chief called Kārtavīrya, who was a patron of Jainism.
1. E. C. IV, Yd. 26, 28, p. 56. 2. Ibid., Yd. 21, 23, p. 55. 3. Ibid., II, 127, p. 52.
