Book Title: Medieval Jainism
Author(s): Bhasker Anand Saletore
Publisher: Karnataka Publishing House

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________________ CRITICAL TIMES 245 Bhatāra. Kanakanandi is called the servant of Tirukkurandi in a Vatteluttu record found there. Two Vatteluttu inscriptions found at Muttupatti are of some interest in this connection. One informs us that Kanakavīra Periyadigal, the disciple of Gunasenadevar, who was the disciple of Kuraņçi Ațţa-upavāsi-bhatāra of Vēņbunāļu, caused a Jaina image to be constructed in the name of the inhabitants of Kuyirkuļi (mod. Kiļakkuļi).3 And another relates that Māghanandi, the disciple of Kurandi Aşta-upavāsi-bhatāra, caused to be constructed another image also in the name of the inhabitants of that nādu.' A third Vațțeluttu record found at Paļļimadam in the Rāmnad district, registers the gift of fifty-five sheep by śātetangāri for a lamp to the temple (basadi) of Tirukāțțambal}ideva at Kurandi.“ Some more instances may be given of the widespread influence of Jainism in the southern peninsula. Tagļūr (Dharmapuri) in the Salem district was a Jaina stronghold in the ninth century A.D. in the days of the Noļambas. In saka 800 (A.D. 878) the Pallava Mahendra Noļamba made a grant to a basadi in Tagļūr. It was in the reign of the same ruler in Saka 815 (A.D. 893) that a citizen named Nandiyaņņa receiving the village of Müllapalli from the king gave it as a gift to Kanakasena Siddhānta, the disciple of Vinayasena Siddhānta of the Pogariya 1. 63 of 1910. 2.68 of 1910. 3. 61 of 1910. 4. 62 of 1910, 5. 428 of 1914. For some more instances, see 430, 431 of 1914; Ep. Rep. of S. Circle for 1915, pp. 100-101; Rangacharya, Top. List, III, p. 1163. 6. 348 of 1901 ; Rangacharya, ibid, II. p. 1212.

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