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

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________________ STATE AID TO JAINISM 301 ka carried out at once the royal behest.: Obviously in imitation of his noble father, Prince Harihara, as we shall narrate in a latter context, gave munificent gifts to the basadi at Kanakagiri. The next monarch who continued the tradition of the carly Vijayanagara rulers of bestowing patronage on the Jaina institutions was king Deva Rāya II (AD. 1419 A.D. 1446). In A.D. 1424 he made over the village of Varanga in Tuļuva to the basadi of Varanga Neminātha of the same place.? Of Krşqa Deva Rāya the Great it may truly be said that he made no distinction between the different faiths in his Empire. His large-hearted benevolence was primarily responsible for the gifts he made to the Jaina temples in two distant provinces of his Empire. He gave gists of two villages to the basadi of Trailokyanātha at Tirupparuttikuņru, Conjeeverain tāluka, Chingleput district, once in the cyclic ycar Dhātri (corresponding to the Saka year 1438= A.D. 1516), and then again in Saka 1440 (A.D. 1519). In A.D. 1528 the same monarch gave a gift to the basadi at Cippagiri, Alūru tāluka, Bellary district, and had the endowment recorded on the walls of the sinaller Venkataramaņa temple of that place. 4 Before we proceed to describe the cfforts made by the nobles and generals of Vijayanagara to help the cause of the anekāntamata in the great city of Vijayanagara and outside, 1. E. C., V. Mj. 58, p. 273. 2. Sewell, Lists of Antiquities., C. P. No. 89; Rangacharya, Top. List., II., p. 875. 3. 188 of 1901 ; 45 of 1890 ; Rangacharya, ibid, I. p. 375 ; Swamikannu, Ind. Ephem. V. pp. 234, 240. 4. Bellary Gazetteer, I. p. 210 ; Rangacharya, ibid, I, p. 258 ; Seshagiri Rao, op. cit., p. 35.

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