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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Nittūru in the Gubbi tāluka also contained a basadi called the śāntiśvara basadi. It is dated to about the middle of the twelfth century A.D.' Pious Bhavyas lived in Nițļūru, as is shown by the nisidhi stones commemorating their death.2
At the beginning of the thirteenth century A.D. Hiriya Mahāļige possessed the Pañca basadi, which in about A.D. 1200 was repaired by a devout citizen. Along with the nād people, he endowed it with three villages which had been originally given to it by a king (unnamed).3
The Jinālaya in Kuntalāpura in circa A.D. 1204 was likewise endowed with lands by the farmers and the Great Minister Hiriya Hedeya Asavara Mārayya. This latter official conducted an enquiry, "defaced by force the stone śäsana which had been written", and then along with the nād people gave a grant to the “excellent ācārya" of Kuntalāpura, Nemicandra Bhațțāraka. The reason why the enquiry was conducted and why Sāvanta Mārayya forcibly removed the existing stone śāsana was probably because it was a forged document detrimental to the interests of the Jina temple and the sangha at Kuntaläpura.
Jidduļigenād and Eạenād contained many Jinendra temples in about A.D. 1208. They were the outcome of the liberality of Nemi Sețți of the Nunna varśa. It was he who had caused the śāntinātha Jinālaya to be built at Kodanki, which, we may note by the way, is called in the record "a mine of the gems of learned men and beautiful women”. Liberal endowments were made to this temple by Nemi Śețți.5
1. M. A. R. for 1919, p. 11. 2. Ibid for 1930, p. 257. 3. E. C, VII. Sk. 227, p. 133. See also Sk. 232, ibid page. 4. Ibid, VII. Sh. 65, p. 26. 5. Ibid, VIII, Sb. 28, pp. 5-6.
