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207 time of Māghanandi himself. The same source speaks of Pratāpapura of Kellangere which belonged to the Rūpanārayaņa basadi of Kollāpura of the Pustaka gaccha, the Deśiya gana, and the Mūla sangha. A later record dated about A.D. 1200 informs us that Māghanandi Siddhāntadeva was connected with the Sāvanta basadi of Kollāpura. This basadi belonged to the same Jaina congregation as the previous one.?
Neither Kolhāpur nor Sringeri was so conspicuous as Bandaņike, one of the most well known centres of Jainism. Today Bandaņike (mod. Bandalike) is a village overgrown with teak trees, with a number of mutilated Jaina figures lying all about. But Bandanike, called in later records Bāndhavanagara and Bāndhavapura, was a seat of the Bhavyas so early as A.D. 902, when it was called a tīrtha. In this year Bițțayya, the Pērggade of the Nādu in the province governed by Lõkateyarasa, caused to be built in that holy place a basadi for which the viceroy and others granted specific villages as a gift. The interest of this stone inscription lies also in the fact that both Bittayya and his wife, who was the gāmundi of Bhārangiyūr, renounced the world, evidently after the construction of the basadi. These events took place in the reign of the Rāşțrakūta king Krşņa II, Akālavarşa.3
Bandaņike sprang into fame under the scions of the Kādamba family. It was the capital of Boppa (or Brahma) Dēva. The god śāntinātha of this city is praised thus in
1. E. C. II. 64, op. cit. 2. Ibid., II. 386, p. 164. See also ibid., Intr. pp. 61, 74, 85.
3. M. A. R. for 1911, p. 38. Dr. Krishna speaks of a record dated A.D. 918 found in the same place Bandaņike (M. A. R. for 1931, p. 66) which I am unable to trace.
