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JAINA MEN OF ACTION
133 that “Without room for any fear, in the manner of the Gangas, he decorated (alankarisidan) the basadis of the Gangavādi 96,000.” In the same record we are told that he granted lands for the basadis known as the Trikūta basadis which he had caused to be constructed in Arakoțţāra in the Edenad.1 The Pārsvanātha basadis at Chāmarājanagara and at Bastihaļļi in Dorasamudra owed their existence to his generosity. To a great Jina temple erected by his wife in the Hoysala capital Dorasamudra, as we shall narrate in the next chapter, he gave the two villages of Mānikavolal and Māvinakere in Mödūrnād as gifts. Further, to all the basadis in Mānikavoļal he made specified endowments of land and money. These gifts may be assigned to about A.D. 1117.3
General Punisamayya's guru was Ajitasena Panditadeva whose identity cannot be determined.
We may now mention the other six Jaina generals of king Vişnuvardhana. In about A.D. 1120 we have commander Baladevaņņa. He was the third son of king Aditya (or Arasāditya) and Acāmbike, his elder brothers being Pamparāya and Harideva. This stone inscription found at Sravaņa Belgoļa styles Baladevaņņa “the virtuous leader of the assemblage of ministers." The three brothers were ornaments of the Karnāțaka family, renowned in the world, uncles of Mācirāja, fiercely valorous to enemies, devoted to the feet of Jina, and possessed of great fortitude. Baladevanna was the chief of all ministers, subduer of enemies, eschewer of
1. E. C., IV, Ch. 83, p. 10.
2. M. A. R. for 1908, p. 9; ibid., for 1916, p. 53 ; ibid., for 1934, p. 84.
3. M. A. R. for 1920, p. 32. See E. C. IV, Kr. 37, p. 105 where an incorrect rendering of the record is given.
4. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 53 ; ibid., for 1920, p. 32.
