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

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________________ 330 MEDIÆVAL JAINISM “This village (of Maleyūr) would therefore seem to have been no longer exclusively Jaina.1 But such an assumption cannot be maintained. The god Vijayanātha, as we have remarked above, was set up by a Jaina devotee in A.D. 1355. And Kanakagiri, as will be proved by the following inscriptions, remained a Jaina centre till the first quarter of the sixteenth century A.D. In A.D. 1518 Municandradeva died in Kanakagiri. He had belonged to the Kālor gana and the Mūla sangha. On his death, his disciples Ādidāsa and Vrşabhadāsa caused suitable memorials to be made on that hill. Adidāsa had his guru's footprints inscribed through Āvujaạna, while Vļşabhadāsa, who seems to have been the chief disciple of Municandra, had a tomb constructed for the latter with a verse which was the work of Vidyānandopadhyāya.2 Indeed, Kanakagiri continued to be a Jaina stronghold till the modern times. For it was in A.D. 1813 that Bhattākalanka, the head of the Deśiya gana, and lord of the secure throne in Kanakagiri, died on that hill.3 Rāvandūru in the Huņsūr tāluka, Mysore State, seems to have had an ancient basadi. We infer this from the inscription dated A.D. 1384 in which the death of Srutakirtideva, the chief disciple of Prabhendu, of the Inguleśvara bali, is recorded. His disciple Adidevamuni and Sumati Tīrthankara, along with the Bhavyas of the Srutagana, set up a memorial on his behalf. And at the same time they repaired that caityālaya. The last statement that they repaired the caityālaya 1. E. C. IV, Intr. p. 24 ; Ch. 144, 159, pp. 19, 21 ; text pp. 55, 59. 2. Ibid, Ch. 147, 148, 161, pp. 19-21. 3. Ibid, Ch. 146, 150, pp. 19-20.

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