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WOMEN AS DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH 161 a beautiful Jina temple. She was the disciple of śubhacandradeva of the Desiya gana. For this caityālaya which was an ornament in the Mandaļi 1,000, her husband, Ganga Mahādevī, and the principal officers together with the Nādprabhus, gave as a gift the village of Būdanagere in the same province and certain lands in Bannikere along with specified money payments. King Hemmāļi, we may observe by the way, himself was a Jaina. It was he who had built a Jina temple at Kuntalāpura attached to the Krāņūr gana of the Meşapāşaņa gaccha and the Mūla sangha. His guru was Prabhācandra Siddhāntadeva. And one of his sons Satya Ganga in A.D. 1112 had built the Ganga Jinālaya in the Kuruļi tirtha granting lands to it to his guru Mādhavacandradeva. These details are gathered from records dated A. D. 1112, 1113, and 1115. With such relatives who were devout Jinas, it is no wonder that Cațçaladevi's benevolent deeds should have been so successfully carried out.
Another śāntara princess who promoted the cause of the anekāntamata was Pampā devī, the daughter of king Taila and the elder sister of Vikramāditya śāntara. Epigraphs highly praise this lady. “All the world filled with newly raised towers of painted caityalayas, the ears of all the elephants at the points of the compass filled with the sounds of trumpets and drums in Jina festivals, all the sky filled with flags for Jina worship Pampādevi shone everywhere with the glory of the Arhad śāsana. Considering the stories of Jinanātha in the well-known Mahāpurāņa her earrings. the bestowal of the four kinds of gifts to Jina munis her bracelets, devotion and praise of Jinapati her beautiful necklace, could king Taila's daughter care for the weight of ornaments on her person?” In one month she herself caused
1. E. C. VIII, Nr, Sh. 60, 64, 97, pp. 22-25, 35. M. J. 6
