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JAINISM AT THE PROVINCIAL COURTS 315 He rightly commented on these double lingas by saying that the association of Jina images with Saivite lingas pointed to the reconciliation effected between the Jainas and the Lingāyats during the rule of the Cangāļvas in the second half of the sixteenth century A.D.1
A notable figure in the annals of the Cangāļva kings is that of General Mangarasa. An able commander, Mangarasa was also a clever Kannada poet and a pation of Jainism. He was the son of the Mahaprabhu Vijayapāla, the viceroy of Kallahalli, and the minister of the Cangāļva king. His mother's name was Dēvile.? Both Vijayapāla and Dēvile were pious Jainas.
The martial activities of Mangarasa are mentioned in connection with the foundation of the city of Bețţadapura. It is related in a manuscript dealing with the origin of this city, that Mangarasa was instrumental in the subjugation of the wild tribes called the Bēdars and in the building of the city of Beļtadapura, during the rule of the Cangāļva king Vikramarāya. This Cangā!va ruler, we may incidentally note, built the trikūļ ācala Jina basadi at Cikka Hanasõge.
Mangarasa is said to have fortified Kallahalli, Cilukunda, Mallarājapatļaņa, Pālupāre, and other centres. He con
1. M. A. R. for 1925, p. 15.
2. Copies of inscriptions said to be dated Saka 1535 (A.D. 1613) give the names Vijayarāja and Kusumājammanņi as the parents of Mangarasa, and relate that Vijayarāja was the son of king Madhavarājendra of Cangāļadeśa. (M. A. R. for 1925 p. 14).
3. M. 4. R. for 1925, pp. 14-15. This Ms. is supposed to be based on a stone inscription found at Tunga. But the fact of Mangarasa's having been the minister of Vikrama is confirmed by Mangarasa's own work to be mentioned presently.
