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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Siddhāntadeva of the Desiya gana and the Pustaka gaccha. And when in A.D. 1279 Candrakīrti, who belonged to the same Jaina congregation, but who was the disciple of Maladhāri Bālacandra Rāvula, died by the same method, all the chief Bhavyas of Heggare had a monument made in his name.2
Another seat of Jainism was śringeri. The one prominent basadi in this well known seat of Advaitism was the Pārsvanātha basti. It cannot be made out when it was constructed. But by the middle of the twelfth century A.D. it had already becoine popular. For in A.D. 1149 certain donors who belonged to the Krāņūr gaņa, are mentioned in a damaged record of that date found in the Pārsvanātha basadi.? The basadi built in memory of Māri Šețţi, who was descended from Vijaya Nārāyaṇa śețți of Nidugod, in A.D. 1160, must have been a separate temple. To this basadi certain lands and customs ducs were granted by the Baņajamu (i.e., the Vīra Banajigas) and the Nānādesis. Dr. Krishna mentions another inscription which contains only a salutation to Pārsvanātha, and belongs to the same date as that found in the Pārsvanātha basadi.5
To the same age should be assigned the importance of Kolhāpur as a Jaina centre. The credit of turning it into a tīrtha for the Jainas is to be given to the great philosopher Māghanandimuni, the disciple of Kulacandradeva. This we infer from a stone inscription dated A.D. 1163 of the
1. E. C. XII. Ck. 23, p. 78. 2. Ibid., Ck. 24, p. 79. 3. M. A. R. for 1934, pp. 113-114.
4. Ibid., for 1933, p. 123. The late Mr. Narasimhacarya opined that this was the earliest record found in Sringeri. M.A.R. for 1916, pp. 17, 83. But in view of the inscription dated A.D. 1149 cited above, that opinion is untenable.
5. M. A. R. for 1933, p. 125.
