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Such spontaneous liberality was appreciated by the State. The following example further proves our assertion. Nokkayya was the son of Poleyamma and Keleyabbe. Once when he was in Taţtekere, the king Tribhuvanamalla Ganga Permmādi Deva paid a visit to that town in A.D. 1085, and gave him the whole of the government of that city. The great minister, Senior Pērggade Nokkayya, who was the disciple Prabhācandra Siddhāntadeva of the Meşapāşaņa gaccha, enlarged a tank, formed paddy fields, erected a temple, and established places for distribution of food. He built a basadi with the big tank of Tațţakere surrounding it. His elder son Gujjana was opposed to it; but on the latter's death, Nokka Perggade erected two Jina basadis in Harige and Nelavatti. And when Nokka's second son Jinadeva too died, the ruler Ganga Permmadi himself, as a reward for Nokka's liberality and boldness, for the two basadis which the latter had built, granted the following royal rewards--- the royal insignia of two horses, canopy, cámaras, and big drums, along with the gāvundavrtti of eight specified villages, twenty horses, and 500 slaves together with the fixed rent of the villages, (named), free of all imposts, as a perpetual gift.
The Great Minister Pērggade Nokkayya's liberality was now doubled. He erected four basadis and granted specified lands for the Sthanāpati of the Jina settlements belonging to the Gaņa gaccha. And once again the generous monarch granted the shop-tax and customs dues of Taţtekere to his
1. He is not the same as Pațțaņasvāmi Nokkayya mentioned above, since the latter is called the son of Ammana. E. C. VIII. Nr. 57, p. 153. Moreover the difference in the names of their gurus is to be also noted in this connection.
