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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM gifts in the great holy places, he erected a Jinālaya in the capital Dorasamudra itself, and like other loyal and dutiful citizens, christened it after his royal master-Vişnuvardhana Jinālaya. General Immaļi Bittimayya's guru was the learned Sripāla Traividyadeva, a great logician and a Vādībhasimha. The engraver of this record asks the question-" The commentaries he (Srīpāla) had made in prose, verse, and precept, embodying the rules of the six systems of logic, for the refutation of opponents, who can describe?” General Bittimayya gave the village of Bījavoļal (location given) which he had received as a gift from king Vişnu, and other lands which he had bought from citizens (named), to his guru for the worship of the god in the basadi and for its repairs and for food of the işis.1
We now come to the reign of the next Hoysala monarch Narasimha I (A.D. 1141—A.D. 1173). His age like that of his illustrious father became famous because of the activities of four Jaina generals and two ministers, one of whom, so far as the history of Jainism is concerned, ranked with Ganga Rāja and Cāmunda Rāya. These were Commanders Deva Rāya, Huļļa, śāntiyaņņa, and iśvara, while the ministers were Sivarāja and Someya.
The great minister-general Deva Rāja belonged to the Kausika gotra. His guru was Municandra Bhațţāraka who is described as one adorned with the jewels of the thirty-six qualities and devoted to the five kinds of observances. Deva Raja was “a jewelled vase shining on the pinnacle of the Hoysala kingdom.” And king Narasimha pleased with his
1. E. C. V, Bl. 17, pp. 48-51. It cannot be made out whether Immadi Bittimayya is identical with Bittimayya mentioned in the reign of king Narasimha. See E. C. IV, Intr. p. 21, where reference is given to Kp. 32 which is wrong.
