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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Sāteya who wrote the stone inscription of that date. Stone inscriptions found at Kopbal, and assigned to the thirteenth century A.D., mention the names of Sāntaladevī basadi, the Arasiya basadi, the Tirthada basadi, and the Timmabbarasiya basadi at the same place.2
That Kopana did not lose its fame and importance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D. is proved by later epigraphs. In about A.D. 1400 Candrakīrtideva, Master of all Arts (sakala-kalā-pravīņa) and the chief disciple of Subhacandradeva, of the Mūla sangha and the Inguļeśvara baļi, caused an image of Candraprabha to be set up "intending it for his own tomb."3 Under the Vijayanagara Emperor Kṛṣṇa Deva Rāya the Great, Kopana was styled a simā. It had been assigned by that monarch to the Treasurer Timmappayya for his nāyakship. But in this age or before one of the famous Jaina shrines at that place had been turned into a saivite temple. This is concluded from the same record dated A.D. 1521 in which the Treasurer Timmappayya is said to have granted the village Hiriyasindogi to the Cenna Keśava god of Kopaņa. It has been surmised that this temple of Cenna Keśava was originally a Jaina temple from the fact that the temple still contains Jaina sculptures." One of the greatest scholars of the sixteenth century, by name Vādi Vidyānanda, is said to
1. E. C. IX, Cg. 45, p. 175.
2. Desai, K. H. R. II. no. 2, p. 12. Charlu, ibid. p. 14. where Mr. Charlu has based his remarks on the admirable note on Kopaña supplied to him by the late Mr. N. B. Shastry of that place.
3. E. C. IV. Ch. 151, p. 20. 4. Desai, ibid, p. 12; Charlu, ibid, p. 10. 5. Desai, ibid.
