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199 have won distinction thus in about A.D. 1530—In Kopaņa and other tirthas he held great festivals with immense wealth, and by means of the rite of dehājñā in order to gain the reward of salvation, became famous. We shall see in a later context that in the first quarter of the sixteenth century A.D. Kopaņa still boasted of traders and merchants. So that our account of Kopaņa may be brought down to the eighteenth century A.D., we may mention here that, according to a stone inscription of Kopbal assigned to that century, Vardhamānadeva, the disciple of Devendrakirti Bhattāraka, had the image of Cchāyā Candranātha made and set up there. 2
There were other prominent Jaina centres as well. Cikka Hanasõge in the Yedatore tāluka, which figures conspicuously in records ranging from the ninth century A.D. till the first quarter of the twelfth century,3 had at one time sixty-four basadis. To-day, however, it is filled with ruins amidst which may be seen the beautiful basti built in the fine Călukyan style. In about A.D. 1080 a relative of Dāmanandi Bhattāraka, the senior guru of Divākaranandi Siddhāntadeva of the Pustaka gaccha, is said to have been the head of all the basadis of the Cangāļvatirtha of Panasõge, and of the Abbe basadi as well as of the basadi of Baļivane of Torenād. It is interesting to note here that in an inscription assigned to the eleventh century and found in the Tīrthada basadi in the
1. E. C. VIII. Nr. 46, p. 147. See below Chapter on Jaina Celebrities in Vijayanagara.
2. Charlu, Kannada Insc., p. 8. For another Kopbal, see M. A. R. for 1924, p. 1.
3. M. A. R. for 1913-4, p. 26. 4. Ibid. for 1912-3, p. 18. 5. E. C. IV. Yd. 23, p. 55.
