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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 327 the Müla sangha. The inscription commemorates also the fact that Payi þetti gained happy samadhi as a result of having offered the campaka tree for the worship of Gummațanāthasvāmi.
One of the early capitals of the Vijayanagara rulers was Hosapattana. This city was also a well known stronghold of the Jainas. It is like Kalleha referred to in connection with the great controversy mentioned above. Māyana and Mākaņa erected a monument in memory of the rāja guru Lakşmīsena Bhattāraka at Hosapattana. These were two brothers of the Vaisya caste hailing from Balagāra. Cāyana was a disciple of the guru Amarakīrti, and a worshipper at the Sankha basadi at Huligere. The event recorded in this inscription took place in the reign of king Bukka Rāya. A similar stone to commemorate the death of the guru Manasena was erected by his disciple Māya sețți and others in A.D. 1405.3
The Chāmarājanagara tāluka contained some noteworthy cities in the Vijayanagara times. The town of Chāmarājanagara itself possessed the Pārsvanātha basadi. Here in the fourteenth century A.D. expired by the orthodox manner Boppayya, the disciple of Amarakirti of the Krānür gana. In A.D. 1517 the Mahāprabhu Vīrayya Nāyaka, of Arikuthāra, the son of Kāmaya Nāyaka, endowed this basadi with a gift.
Harave in the same tāluka contained the caityālaya of Ad:
1. E. C. II. 495, pp. 133-4. 2. M. A. R. for 1927, pp. 61-62.
3. Ibid, p. 62. See also p. 63 for a nisidhi erected on the death of Maunapācārya. Dr. Sastry has identified Hosapottana with Sakkarepattana.
4. Ibid for 1931, p. 42. 5. Ibid for 1912, p. 51.
