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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM robes ?), and Birudanamottadişțāyakam (master of the company of the titled). His birth place was Lokkundi which was, as we know from other records, one of the capitals of king Ballāļa II. Nayakīrti Panditadeva, the disciple of Jinacandra, was the spiritual guru of Amsta Dandanāyaka. Together with his three brothers, Amstayya set up in A. D. 1203 the Yekkoți Jinālaya in Okkalugere ; and in the presence of certain Nāyakas (named) and all the citizens and farmers, made a grant of land for the eight kinds of ceremonies of the god śāntinātha and for gifts of food for ascetics.
But General Amộta was liberal towards the non-Jainas as well. It was he who set up a temple and built an agrahāra in his birth-place Lokkuņdi in A. D. 1203, and established the god Amsteśvara in Amstapura, Tarikere tāluka, as is related in a record dated A. D. 1206.2
The benevolent work of the Minister for Peace and War Ēcaņa also falls within the reign of king Ballāļa II. Ecaņa in about A. D. 1205 caused a Jinälaya to be constructed. It had not its like anywhere in Beļagavattināà, and this made that centre equal to Kopaņa.
An unidentifiable patron of Jainism may be mentioned here. In an inscription found on the pedestal of the Caturvimšati Tīrthankara basadi at Kopana, it is said that the image was caused to be made by Bopaña, whose descent is stated, and who was the disciple of Māghanandi Siddhāntadeva ; and that it was presented by him to the basadi of the Mūla sangha and Deśiya gana at Kopaņa erected by Mādhava Dançanāyaka at the conclusion of some obser
1. E. C. VI, Kd., 36, p. 8. 2. Ibid., Kd. 36, op. cit. ; Tk. 42, pp. 109-110. 3. Ibid., VIII, Sk. 317, p. 154.
