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181 pay certain specified dues for the worship, etc., in the basadi.1 For the worship of the splendid Jina temple at Māgudi constructed by Sānkara Sāmanta in about A.D. 1182 which we mentioned in connection with Rēca Dandanātha's endowments, the Baņañju of the four places and the Mummuri Danda granted certain specified dues on the value of the treasures brought by all the merchants of various countries.2 And in A.D. 1195 a dancing hall and a stone pavement in front of the god Kamatha-Pārsvadeva at śravana Belgoļa, we may be permitted to repeat, constructed by the Pațţaņasvāmi Nāgadeva were likewise entrusted to the charge of the merchants born in the eminent line of Khandali and Mūlabhadra, and skilled in conducting various kinds of trade with many ports, but residing at śravana Belgoļa.3
The popularity of the Jina dharma among the masses is seen from the many examples of devotion met with in the lithic records. In A.D. 1199 the god Mallikāmoda Sāntinātha of the Hiriya basadi at Balligāme stood in need of voluntary aid. Heggade Hiriyaņņa, the Adhikari of the city, and a few others (named) granted certain customs dues to the priest Padmanandideva for the worship in the basadi. This was in the reign of king Ballāļa II.4 Honni śeţți and other Bhavyas of Sāntigrāma in the Hassan district, in the reign of the same monarch, set up in about A.D. 1200 the image of Sumati Bhattāraka of the Inguleśvara baļi and the Desiya gana. Malli setti had the outer wall of the Ādīśvara basadi of Nițțūr in the Gubbi tāluka, adorned with
1. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 49. 2. E, C. VII. SK. 197, p. 127. 3. Ibid, II. 335, p. 143. 4. M. A. R. for 1911, p. 46. 5. Ibid for 1917, p. 60
