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CRITICAL TIMES
261 Kottagere, Kūņigal tāluka, contains now a ruined Jina temple. But an inscription on the pedestal of a Jina image lying there states that the image of śāntinātha was caused to be made in about A.D. 1250 by Māghanandideya, the disciple of Haricandradeva, of Heragu, who belonged to the Mūla sangha and the Inguļeśvara baļi.1
The god Prasanna Pārsva of the Brahma Jinālaya of Jõgamațtige in Tailangere (in the Sīrā tāluka ?) received in A.D. 1277 a gift of 2,000 arecanuts in a specified village from Kalli Sețți, the disciple of Bāļendu Maladhārideva of the Inguļeśvara baļi, as a permanent gift. This record tells us that the donee Cellapiļle's father Dipanāyaka belonged to the Jina Brahmans of Bhuvalokanāthapura in the Bhuvalokanāthavişaya of the Ponnara-mativişaya which lay to the north of the southern Madhura in the southern Pāndyadesa. The interest of this record lies in the fact that a class of Jainas called Jina Brahmans lived in a part of the Tamil land. Dipanāyaka is expressly stated in the record to have belonged to the Dyetreyaśākha of the Yajurveda, Vāśiştha gotra, and the Kauņdinya- Maitra-VaruņaVāśiştha pravara.?
Kalasa in the Mūdgere tāluka possessed a temple of Jineśvara in the same year A.D. 1277. And it also received specified gifts of rice from a citizen called Mādhava Setti.3
The Gandha-guļi of the Honnēyanahaļļi basadi in the Huņsār tāluka was constructed in A.D. 1303 by Padmanandi Bhattāraka, the disciple of Bāhubali Maladhārideva of Hanasõge. 4
1. M. A. R. for 1919, p. 33. 2. E. C. XII. Si. 32, p. 93. 3. Ibid., VI. Mg. 67, p. 72. 4. Ibid, IV. Hs, 14, p. 84.
