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Cattaladevi undertook the task of making the Pañcabasadi in A.D. 1077. This Santara lady's other meritorious works were the following-the construction of tanks, wells, basadis, temples, watersheds, sacred bathing places, satras, groves, and bestowing gifts of food, medicine, learning and shelter. We may observe here that Caṭṭaladevi's preceptor was Śrīvijaya Bhaṭṭāraka, also known as Pandita Pārijāta, who was proficient in all the Sastras and Agamas, and who was the head of the Nandi gana of the Arunguļānvaya of the Nidambare tirtha of the Tiyan-gudi. He was also the guru of Rakkasa Ganga, the father of Catṭaladevi, and of Bira Deva and Nanni Sāntara.1
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In a later record dated A. D. 1103 we learn that the same Santara lady, who is called a cow of plenty to the glorious Jina congregation," along with her own sons Bhujabala Sāntara, Nanni Santara, and Vikrama Sāntara, granted specified lands to the same Pañcabasadi. And opposite to that Jinālaya, in Anandūr, she and Tribhuvanamalla Santara, as a memorial for the death of Birabbarasi, laid the foundation stone of another basadi, pronouncing the name of Vādigharaṭṭa Ajitasena Pandita.2
Ladies of the Ganga royal family were also noted for their liberal endowments for the cause of the Jina dharma. For instance, in about A. D. 1112 Ganga Mahadevi, the pattada mahadevi (crowned queen) of Bhujabala Ganga Hemmāḍi Māndhātabhūpa, the king of Gangavāḍi and MeghutțiMandali 1,000, was one of such patrons of the anekantamata. She is styled in this record as a female bee at the lotus feet of Jinendra." Her husband king Hemma had another consort named Bacaladevi who erected in Bannikere
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1. E. C. VIII, Nr. 35, pp. 137-138; Nr. 39, 40, pp. 143-4. 2. Ibid., T1. 192, pp 204-205.
