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305 to His service."1 Shorn of the metaphors, the above description of General Irugappa enables us to conclude that he was dutiful to his ruler, generous to the worthy, considerate to the needy, and devout to Jina.
We have now to see whether the praise thus given to him was in any way justifiable. General Irugappa appears for the first time in A.D. 1382 when he made a gift of land to the. ancient Trailokyanātha basadi at Tirupparuttikuņru in the Chingleput district. This was during the reign of king Harihara Rāya II. The gift was made, we may observe, for the merit of Prince Bukka Rāya, in the cyclic year Dundubhi corresponding to Saka 1304 (A.D. 1382).2 We are to suppose from this that General Irugappa first saw State service under Prince Bukka, the future Bukka Rāya, and the son of king Harihara Rāya II, in the Chingleput district. Our assumption is proved by another record dated only in the cyclic year Prabhava and found in the same basadi, in which it is said that the manţapa in front of the same basadi was built by General Irugappa at the instance of his guru Puşpasenas. The cyclic year Prabhava corresponds to śaka 1309, and we have, therefore, to suppose that General Irugappa's official connection with the south lasted till A.D. 1387.
While the Jaina general was thus adding to the prosperity of a Jaina institution which, since the days of the famous Coļa monarch Rāja Rāja, had received patronage at the hands of the southern rulers, certain domestic events neces
1. E. C. II, 253, pp. 106-108.
2. 41 of 1890 ; S. I. I. I., p. 156; Rangacharya, Top. List., I., p. 375 : Swamikannu op. cit. V. p. 366.
3. 42 of 1880; E. I. VII. p. 116 ; Rangacharya, ibid, I p. 375 ; Swamikannu, op. cit., IV. p. 376.
4. 17 of 1889; S. 1. 1. I., 152, pp. 155-160. Sewell commits an error when he makes Irugappa the son of Baicayya. Historical
