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

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________________ CRITICAL TIMES 257 cffaced in the record but who was a Gorava, consecrated an image of Candranātha in the baslå of that name at Būvinahaļli, Hunsur tāluka. The Ankanātheśvara and Subrahmanya temples at Ankanāthapura in the same tāluka of Hoļe Narasipura, seem to have been once Jaina temples. This is shown by the fact that inscriptions commemorating the death of Jaina nuns are found around the temples. One of such devotees was Cāmakabbe, who is described as a supporter of the Jaina assembly (śramaņa sangha) and of the four samayas. Varuņa in the Mysore tāluka at the close of the ninth century A.D. was a seat of a minor branch of the Western Cālukyas. It contained a large number of Jaina temples the ruins of which lie to the west of the village. Six mutilated images of Jaina deities have been found in that villagc.2 Manne in the Nelamangala tāluka and Ummattūr in the Chāmarājanagara tāluka once boasted of devoted Bhavyas in circa A.D. 1000. In the former place the Saina nun Mārabbe Kantiyar, the disciple of Devendra Bhattāraka, and in the latter, prince Sindayya, the son of the chieftain of Sottiyur, died in the orthodox manner about that date. An important Jaina settlement in the eleventh century A.D. was Kaļasatavādu (mod. Kalasavāļi), four miles to the south of Seringapatam. From two metallic images found at Sravaņa Belgoļa we learn that they formed the property of the Tīrthada basadi at Kaļasatavādu. Both the images were the gifts of two Jaina nuns (named) to the basadi. A cart-load of metallic images at the place corroborates the view that it was, indeed, a prosperous Jaina 1. M. A. R. for 1913-14, p. 31. 2. Ibid for 1916, pp. 26-27. 3. Ibid for 1917, p. 39. J. M. 9

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