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the Nagara Jinalaya at the same great centre, for which he left munificent gifts. This monument seems to have been originally called Śrīnilaya and it was placed in the charge of certain men who will figure later on.1
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The Great Minister Mahadeva Daṇḍanatha came also of an illustrious family of State officials. His wife was Lōkaladevi, an equal to Attimabbe in devotion to the Jina dharma. And his guru was Sakalacandra Bhaṭṭāraka, the disciple of Kulabhūṣaṇa Traividya Vidyadhara, of the Krāṇur gana and the Tintriņika gaccha. Mahadeva Dandanatha erected in A. D. 1198 a splendid Jina temple" in Uddhare called Eraga Jinalaya for the worship and repairs of which he gave, in the presence of the Mahamaṇḍaleśvara Ekkalarasa and others, specified lands. And the Pattanasvāmi Setți and others (citizens) and oilmongers gave specified customs dues. The Mahamanḍaleśvara Ekkalarasa and his retinue added to this benevolent deed by granting the ancient dues on sheep and cattle in and around Uddhare.2
In about A. D. 1200 mention is made of the Great Minister, Sarvadhikari, Superintendent of Ceremonies, Kammata Macayya, who together with his father-in-law Ballayya granted the tax on oil mills for the Paravadimalla Jinālaya in Kumbeyanahalli. 3
Towards the end of the reign of king Ballāļa II there appears General Amṛta. He came of a Sūdra stock, the names of his parents being Hariyama Setți and Suggavve. Amṛta or Amitayya had three younger brothers named Kallayya, Masaṇayya, and Basavayya. Amṛta was a Great minister, Sarvadhikari, Mahāpāyasam (master of the
1. E. C., II, 335, p. 143.
2. Ibid., VIII, Sb. 140, p. 20.
3. Ibid., V, Cn. 151, p. 193.
