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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Parameśvara. It was set up in A.D. 1482 by Devarasa, the accountant of the Mahāmandleśvara Somerāya Odeyar. On Devarasa constructing this caityālaya with a kitchen attached to it, his master Somerāya Odeyar granted specified land to it for the daily worship in that temple, and for the daily distribution of food. And his son Nañjerāja Odeyar purchased land in Harave and gave it as a gift to the basadi. This caused a citizen named Candappa, the son of Devappa of Harave, to give a similar gift to the basadi. But the lands which Candappa gave were a part of his inherited property. Hence he had to give it with the consent of his wife, sons, and heirs. That was not all. Candappa had received as a gift some land from the chiefs of TagŅūr. This too in the same year he presented to the god Ādi Parameśvara —who is called the family god of this citizen-, again with the full approval of his relations and heirs."
Maleyür in the same tāluka was another stronghold of Jainism. Here on the hill called Kanakagiri were famous basadis of the gods Vijayanātha and Candraprabha. In A.D. 1355 a Telugu by name Adidāsa caused an image of Vijayadeva to be made. He was the disciple of Hemmacandra who belonged to the Hanasõge bali, and of Lalitakirti Bhattāraka. The image, we are told, was made" for the purpose of their tomb ". This latter guru Lalitakīrti Bhattāraka was probably identical with his namesake who is said to have belonged to the Deśiya gaña, Pustaka gaccha, and the Hanasõge baļi, in a record assigned to the fourteenth century A.D., and found on the pedestal of an image of
1. E. C. IV, Ch. 185, p. 22. 2. Ibid, Ch. 189, p. 23. 3. Ibid, Ch. 153, p. 20.
