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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM gāme) appearing in the same epigraph, is a further proof that that centre belonged to the Jainas in the first quarter of the eleventh century A.D.1
Balligāme remained a Jaina stronghold in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D. We have to recount here the donations given to the Cālukya-Ganga-Permmādi Jinālaya in Balligãme by the king Vikramaditya VI, as recorded in a stone inscription dated A.D. 1077 cited by us already.” As regards the importance of the same city in the reign of the Hoysala king Vira Ballāļa, we know from a lithic record dated A.D. 1199 that certain officers of the provincial government of Nāgarakhanda and Jidduļige 70, during the régime of 'Dandanayaka Malliyanna remitted certain specified dues to Padmanandideva. The object of this endowment was the continuation of the eight-fold worship of the god Mallikāmoda Säntinātha in the Hiriya (i.e., senior, in other words, ancient) basadi of the capital city of Balligāme.3 Like many a great Jaina centre Baļļigāme today possesses no traces of Jaina worship except broken Jaina images.
Another stronghold of the anekāntamata which was as well known as the former was Kuppațūr in the Sohrab tāluka. This place figures in inscriptions of the eleventh
1. E. C. VII. Sk. 136, pp. 103-104. 2. Ibid., VII. Sk. 124, op. cit.
3. M. A. R. for 1911, p. 46. Dr. Krishna gives the text and translation of this inscription in full, and opines that the record may be assigned to the reign of king Ballāļa III, and that Padmanandideva mentioned here may be identified with his namesake who died in A.D. 1313. (M. A. R. for 1929, pp. 128-130) Another Padmanandideva has figured in a record of A.D. 1077 cited above.
4. M. A. R. for 1911, p. 15.
