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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM granted specified money dues for the maintenance of the temple. These gifts were received by Nayakīrti's disciple Bālacandradeva in A.D. 1182.1 In the same year the Hoysala king added the village of Bekka to the above gift.2
Somaladevi was the wife of the devout Jaina minister Ecana. She too had a basadi erected in A.D. 1207 in Belagavattinād for the worship of which she granted specified lands.?
The sincerity of purpose which lay behind the lives of the common people is seen in the numerous cases of self immolation by the rite of samadhi towards the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D. In about A.D. 1190 śāntiyakka. or śāntale, the daughter of Sankaya Nāyaka and Muddavve, and the disciple of Nayakirti, attained salvation by this method. Ten years later Māļavve, on hearing the news of the death of her daughter-in-law Caundiyakka, displayed the six virtues of devotion allowed for the females, and died by the same manner (in circa A.D. 1200)." Jakkave, the disciple of Kamalasenadeva, in A.D. 1206, followed suit according to the prescribed method.“ About six years later (in A.D. 1212) another woman of the same name but the daughter of Mandaņa Mudda, and the wife of the renowned Bharata, won celebrity in a like manner. “Through imbibing the
1. E. C. II, 327, pp. 136-139 ; see also 331, p. 140; V, Cn. 150, pp. 192-193, op. cit.
2. Ibid., II, 256, p. 115. 3. Ibid. VII, Sk. 320, p. 115. 4. Ibid., Sk. 200, p. 127. 5. Ibid., XII, Gb. 5, p. 17.
6. M. A. R. for 1929, p. 126. This corrects M. A. R. for 1911, p. 46.
