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183 lācārya Nayakirtideva's disciple Candraprabhadeva, Sambhudeva and three others (named) granted the same for the milk offerings of Gommaţadeva and the twenty-four Tirthankaras at Śravaņa Belgoļa in A.D. 1273 in the reign of the Hoysala king Narasimha III.1 Likewise in A.D. 1280 in the reign of the same monarch, all the farmers of Arakoţtāra having freed the basadi of that locality from all the obligations of money payments, granted the water-rate, alms, housetax, poll-tax, the nicandi, and other dues for the same basadi.2
The same procedure was adopted in A.D. 1282 when all the jewel merchants (māņikya nagarangal) of Belgoļa desired to make some endowments. Together with the royal guru Nēmicandra Pandita's disciple Bāļacandradeva, these merchants, who bclonged to the Balātkāra gaña, and who were the disciples of the Mahamandalācārya Māghanandi, purchased wet land from Bālacandradeva, and gave it along with other lands for the worship of the god Ādi of the Nagara Jinālaya.?
If there were devout Bhavyas who could purchase lands and give them for the offerings in a basadi, there were also austere Jainas who could lay down their lives in the orthodox manner. Soma Gauda was the eldest son of Masaņa Gauda of Cikka Muguļi, and the disciple of śreyāmía Bhattāraka of the Pustaka gaccha and the Hanasõge baļi. When Soma Gauda died in A.D. 1280 by samadhi, his son Heggade Gauda not only set up a memorial stone but also gave lands (specified) for the eight kinds of worship in the local basadi.4
1. E. C. II. 246, p. 104. 2. Ibid, IV. Ch. 84, p. 10. 3. Ibid., II. 334, pp. 141-142.
4. Ibid, VI. Cm. 2, p. 35. For an earlier example in A.D. 1132, see ibid., VIII, Sb. 97, p. 14.
