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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Loka Gāvunda, whose royal master was Soyi Deva of the Kādamba kula. Loka Gāvunda erected a Jinendra temple in A.D. 1171 and provided it with a tank, a well, a watershed for the temple as well as a satra. The name of the image set up was Ratnatraya. For the eight manner of ceremonies of this god Loka Gāvunda gave specified lands to the guru Bhānukirti Siddhāntadeva, the disciple of Municandradeva of the Mūla sangha, Krāņār gana and the Tintriņi gaccha.1 The prominence to which Nāgarakhanda reached as a Jaina centre will be described in connection with the activities of the noblcs of Karnāțaka in a later context.
Towards the last quarter of the thirteenth century (A.D. 1271) we have Kūci Rāja, a nobleman under the Yādava king Mahādeva Rāya. Kūci Rāja was the disciple of Padmasena Bhattāraka. He was placed over Betür in the middle of the Pāņdyadeśa. Here he erected a Lakşmi Jinālaya on the advice of his guru, and assigned to it lands, a shop, and gardens. This temple was attached to the Pogale gaccha of the Sena gaṇa which belonged to the Müla sangha.2
1. E. C. VIII, Sb. 345, pp. 60-61.
2. Ibid., XI, Dg. 13, p. 28. On Kūci Rāja's royal master, see ibid., Dg. 8, 97, pp. 26, 60. Dg. 13 speaks of Jinabhatýāraka as the Rāja guru.
