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WOMEN AS DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH 167 Belgola, adopted severe samnyasana, and renouncing the world died. The half closed eyes, the repetition of the five expressions, the method of meditating on Jinendra, the dignity of taking leave of relations, indicating sainyasana, Mācikabbe fasting cheerfully for one month, easily attained the state of the gods by samādhi in the presence of all the blessed, among whom were Prabhācandra Siddhāntadeva, Vardhamānadeva, and Ravicandradeva. If the queen śāntaladevi was an austere follower of the Jina dharma, her mother was a still more puritan devotec ; and it is not surprising that the engraver Bökimayya should inform us that " the whole world is extolling her (Mācikabbe) and that it is impossible for the panegyrist to describe her."'!
The noble example set by the queen Sāntaladevi and her mother Mācikabbe could not but have had a profound effect on the women of the times. Royal ladies showed how firm was the hold which the Jina dharma had on the Hoysala House. King Vişnuvardhanadeva's daughter was Hariyabbarasi, who is called "the eldest younger sister of Kumāra Ballāļa Deva,” (i. e., king Narasimha I). She was a devout Jaina, and the wife of the lord (vibhu) Singha, and the lay disciple of Gandavimukta Siddhāntadeva. In Hantiyūr in Kodangināļ she caused to be erected in A. D. 1129 a lofty caityalaya with gõpuras surmounted by rounded pinnacles which were set with all manner of jewels. And to provide for the repairs, etc., of this temple, she obtained land freed by the Hoysala king her father, from Cinna of Gutti and the fisherman Bamma at a special price, granting it to her guru named above.
Other examples of unvarnished devotion among royal
1. E. C. II, 143, pp. 73-74. 2. Ibid., VI, Mg., 22, pp. 62-63.
