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

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________________ 1, 3 254 MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Cālukyan monarch Someśvara I (A.D. 1042—A.D. 1068), also received a gift of gold from the Hoysala king Vira Rāmanāthadeva (A.D. 1257-A.D. 1295).1 Sõgi in the Hadagalli tāluka of the same district, which received a gift of land from the Hoysala king Vişnuvardhana, was evidently another seat of the Jainas.2 And a yet third centre was Koțļūru in the Rāyadurga tāluka.3 Although the strongholds of Jainism in the Andhra and the Tamil provinces were less numerous and less powerful than those in Karnāțaka, yet they have left abiding marks on the culture of the Tamil and Andhra peoples. Before we deal with this side of the question, we may conclude our account of the widespread domicile of Jainism in Karnātaka where Jainism manfully struggled against odds to retain its hold on the people. But we shall restrict ourselves to the minor centres of the anekāntamata. Chief among these were Tolļa or Tolļar and Mūlivaļļi, both of which have already been referred to above while dealing with one of the Ganga kings and his feudatories. The Narasimharājapura plates of the Ganga king Srīpuruşa, assigned to the close of the eighth century A.D., mention the cediya or caitya in the Tolļa village situated in the Tagarenād. This is corroborated by two inscriptions at the end of the same grant, but of the reign of king sivamāra (II). One of these commemorates the gift of a village (named) to the same caitya by the governor Viļţarasa, while the other 1. 33 & 34 of 1904. 2. 453 of 1914. 3. For an account of this place, read Ballary Gazetteer, I pp. 290-291. For further rernarks Jainism in the Telugu land, and Seshagiri Rao, op cit., pp. 12-18, 34-35, 37-9; Rangacharya, Top. List, II, p. 1672. 4. M. A. R. for 1920, p. 28, op. cit.

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