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1022) records that the guru of that ruler, by name the Traikālayogi Siddhanta Desigaṇācārya, visited Rāmatirtha.1
In the reign of the Eastern Ganga king Anantavarmadeva, the merchant Kannama Nayaka constructed a basadi called Rājarāja Jinālaya at Bhogapura in the Bimilapatam tāluka of the Vizagapatam district. And in Saka 1109 (A.D. 1187) he gave some specified land to that temple with the consent of the mercantile leaders of the district.2
Taḍpatri in the Anantpur district seems to have been associated with Jainism in Saka 1120 (A.D. 1198). For a Jaina record of that date mentions the donor, Udayāditya, the son of Somadeva and Kañcalādevī, as residing at Tāţipara (Tāḍpatri). But no traces of the Jaina settlement are visible there now.3
Penugonda in the same district contained the Pārsvanatha basadi. An inscription mentions Jinabhūṣaṇa Bhaṭṭāraka, but nothing beyond this can be gathered about the temple.^
The Bellary district was dotted with many Jaina settlements the chief of which was Kōgalī. The ancient Cenna Pārsva temple at this place which, as we saw in the preceding pages, had received patronage at the hands of the Western
1. Seshagiri Rao, op. cit., 19-20. Seshagiri Rao also gives evidence from later Kaifiyuts to show that Warangal (ancient Ekasilanagara) was once a Jaina centre. Ibid. pp. 17-18. The reference given to Ep. Rep. S. circle for 1917-18 cannot be traced. But on king Vimaladitya's accession read I. A., XIV. p. 56; XXIII, p. 131; Kielhorn's Southern List, No. 569.
2. 363 of 1905.
3. This record was found in the Rämeśvara temple at Tädpatri. 338 of 1892.
4. 345 of 1901. Seshagiri Rao mentions other localities in the Anantapur district where traces of Jainism have been found. Seshagiri Rao, ibid., p. 34.
