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which was all his own.
It was from the Kaļacuriya kings that Rēcarasa had received the beautiful province of Nāgarakhanda which he “ruled with exceeding glory.” The stone inscription found in the old Jina basti (modem Cenna Basavanna temple) at Chikkamāgadi, Shikārpur tāluka, and assigned to A.D. 1182, dealing with this minister-general, does not enlighten us as to how he came to exchange his royal masters and serve under the Hoysala king Ballāļa II. We are to suppose that when Rēcarasa found that the Kaļacuriya Empire was, like the Western Cālukya dominion, crumbling before the attacks of the invincible Ballāļa 11,2 he thought it wise to enter the service of the Hoysala monarch.
For the cause of the Jina dharma, General Rēcarasa's efforts were unending. The above Chikkamāgaļi stone inscription informs us that he once came to Māguļi for the purpose of worshipping Jineśvara, together with the king Boppa Deva and Sankara Sāmanta. Having done obeisance to the Jina, Rēca Daņdādhīša inspected the Jina temple built by śankara Sämanta, and being greatly pleased, praised it, and granted the village of Taļave to it for three generations. Further down in the same record it is said that the god in that basadi was called Ratnatraya, and that the priest who received the grant was Bhānukīrti Siddhāntadeva of the Krāņūr gaạo. and the Tintriņāka gaccha and Nunna varsa.
But of all his endowments the most permanent was the construction of the Sahasrakūta Jinalaya in the rājadhāni of Arasiyakere. A stone inscription found in this basadi
1. E. C. VII, Sk. 197, p. 125. See also ibid., II, Intr., p. 62.
2. Read Rice, My & Coorg., pp. 102-103 for an account of king Ballāļa's victories.
