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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM disciple of Śrīpāla Traividya of the Arunguļānvaya and the Dramila sangha.1
An equally conspicuous example of a liberal State servant was minister Candramauļi, the son of Sambhudeva and Akkavve. He was praised by learned men versed in music (Bhārata śāstra), Āgamas, logic, grammar, Upanişads, Purāņas, dramas, and poetry. Indeed, he was “ praised by all the learned men without exception ". He was of “established merit,” an ornament of ministers, a councillor, and " the rod in the celebrated king Ballāļa's right hand.” Himself a staunch Saivite, Candramauļi was nevertheless benevolent towards the Jina dharma. When his wife, whose work we shall describe presently, erected a Jinālaya in Śravaņa Belgoļa, it was he who begged his royal master to grant him the village of Bammeyanahalļi to provide for its worship. Of course the great councillor's request was, as we shall see, granted in A. D. 1182.2
The reign of king Ballāļa II could also boast of other well known Jaina ministers. Nāgadeva was one of them. He was the son of the minister Bammadeva who himself belonged to a famous family of State officials. Nāgadeva was the Patjanasvāmi of king Ballāļa, and was “a protector of Jina temples". His guru was Nayakirti Siddhāntadeva who will be mentioned again in the following pages of this treatise. Nāgadeva caused to be made in A. d. 1195 a dancing hall and a stone pavement in front of the god Pārsva at Śravaņa Belgola. As an act of reverence in memory of the departed Nayakirti Siddhānta, he caused an epitaph to be made in the same year. Nagadeva's lasting work for the cause of the Jina dharma was the construction of
1. E. C., V, Hn., 119, p. 35. 2. Ibid., Cn., 150, pp. 192-193.
