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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM was also known as Kukkuţāsana Maladhārideva, and was merely his vrata guru.
Śravana Belgoļa was not the only centre that tasted the generosity of General Hulļa. Three prominent strongholds of Jainism owed their prosperous condition to the liberality and devotion of that general. These were Kellangere, Bankāpura, and Kopana. Inscriptions dated A.D. 1159 and 1163 tell us in what manner he strengthened the cause of the Jina dharma in these three well known places. In the mahātīrtha of Kopaņa, " after paying much gold,” he purchased from the residents of that tīrtha (specified vịtti of land) which he lovingly granted “amidst the plaudits of the whole world ” for the assembly of the twenty-four Jina sages in that centre.
The same record tells us what he did at Bankāpura. Here he renovated beautifully Uppațţāyta's great Jina temple which had gone to complete ruin. Moreover in that same place he rebuilt “as high as Kailāsa " the Jina temple which had completely been ruined and which had been built by a former chieftain named Kalivița.2
At Kellangere General Huļļa's munificence likewise showed itself. Kellangere was an original holy place (ādi-tīrtha). It had been founded by the Gangas and praised by the whole world. But after a lapse of time only the name remained ! 3
1. E. C. II 345, p. 148.
2. The late Mr. Narasimhacarya identified Kalivița with the Mahāsāmanta Kalivitta of the Callaketana family, the governor of Banavase under the Rāstrakūta king Krsna III, mentioned in a record of A.D. 945. E. C. II, p. 148, n. (2). Cf. Fleet, Dyn., Kan. Dts., p. 420, (2nd Ed.).
3. The reason seems to be that like many a Jaina centre, it passed into the hands of the Brahmans. For in A.D. 1174 it is called the immemorial agrahāra Kellangere alias Hariharapura. E. C. V, Ak. 112, p. 161.
