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POPULAR SUPPORT viceroy of Banavasepura under the Western Cālukyan king Trailokyamalla Someśvara I (A.D. 1042—A.D. 1068). While in the royal city of Balligāme in A.D. 1048, the Mahāmandalaśvara Cāmunda Rāyarasa granted specified land in the same capital for the worship of a basadi of Keśavanandi Aştopavāsi Bhaļāra. This Jaina guru was the disciple of Meghanandi Bhattāraka of the Baļagāra gaña connected with Jajāhuti Sāntinātha. We shall mention later on the place occupied by the Mahāmandaleśvara Cāmunda Rāyarasa in the history of Jainism." We may well assume that Balligāme which possessed a basadi in A.D. 1048 may have been a Jaina centre in the days of Vādi Rudraguna Lakuļīśvara Pandita.
Our surmise is further strengthened by the lithic record dated A.D. 1068 which we have already cited above in connection with General Sāntinātha. The work of that Jaina General may be recalled here ; and we may observe that in Baligrāma was the ancient Mallikāmoda śāntitīrtheśa basadi which was built of wood and which in that year General Sāntinātha rebuilt in stone. The Jaina guru who received a specified grant from the Mahāmandaleśvara Lakşmarasa, the viceroy of the Banavase 12,000 province, was Māghanandi Bhațțāraka who belonged to the Desiya gana and Tālakolānvaya. The concluding lines of the record are all defaced ;? but they prove all the same that in earlier times Jagadekamalla Deva (evidently Jayasimha III, Jagadekamalla, who ruled from A.D. 1018 till A.D. 1042, and after him the Western Cālukyan king Ganga Permmāļi Vikramāditya' VI, both of whom have figured in this treatise), gave grants to the basadi in Balligāme. The statement that " from of old” some land belonged to Nandana basadi (at Baldi
1. E. C. VII. Sk. 120, p. 91. See also I. A. IV, p. 181 ; Moraes, op. cit. pp. 116-117.
2. E. C. VII, Sk. 136, pp. 103-104.
