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renown in the eyes of the Jaina world. When she was thus ruling her principality, "bodily disease having made inroads," she decided that worldly enjoyments were insipid ; and sending for her daughter, made over to her posterity, and freeing herself from the entanglements of the chain of desires, while in the holy place of Bandaņike, in full faith performed the vow of sallekhanā and died in the basadi of that city. It cannot be made out whether she is the same Jakkiyabbe who in a record discovered in the Rameśvara temple at Chikka Hanasoge, Yedatore tāluka, is said to have been the wife of the great warrior Nāgakumāra, and to have gladly gone to the other world, having realized the loathsome nature of this body. In this record she is praised as a devoted Srāvaki who excelled even Rohiņi by her good qualities. If the identification of the Jakkiyabbe mentioned in this record with her namesake spoken of in the above inscription dated A.D. 911 is accepted, then, the epigraph found in Chikka Hanasoge should be dated to a period after A. D. 911 and not in A. D. 900, as has been done.2
To the tenth century A. D. belongs the most celebrated name amongst women in Jaina history. It is that of Attimabbe who was the daughter of General Mallappa, and the wife of Nāgadeva and the mother of Paduveļa Taila. General Mallappa was a commander under the Western Cālukya ruler Tailapa (A.D. 973-A.D. 997). Attimabbe was an ideal devotee. She had 1,000 copies of Ponna's Säntipurāņa made at her own expense, and 1,500 images
1. E. C., VII. Sk. 219, pp. 130-131. For the date see the text, p. 298. It cannot be made out why the date A. D. 918 is given by Rice, when the text says-Saka-nypa kālātita Samvatasarangalenfunūramūvattanālkaneya Prajāpatisamvatsara, etc, which corresponds to A.D. 911. Swamikannu, Indian Ephemeris, V, pp. 224.
2. M. A. R. for 1912-3, p. 38.
