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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 335 inscriptions, as we shall presently see, only prove that the description of Kuppațūr as given in the above record was by no means conventional praise. 1
In the Sohrāb täluka there were other centres of Jainism. Tavanidhi (mod. Tavanandi) was one such place. Here was the well known basadi of Santi Tīrthankara. In A.D. 1372 Bommaņa, the son of Tavanidhi Mādi Gauda, and the disciple of Madhavacandra Maladhārideva, died by the rites of samadhi.2 It is not unlikely that the Aļuva Mahā. prabhu Tavanidhi Bomma Gauda himself was a disciple of that guru. Whether this is permissible or not, we know that Tavanidhi Bomma Gauda died by the samnyasana rites in A.D. 1379.3 There is every reason to believe that such a course of action was directed by the Jaina priests themselves. We prove this from the example of Tamma Gauda of Sohrāb, evidently a nobleman, who died of consumption. He had been to Nagileyakoppa below the Ghats in A.D. 1394, in order to take medicine, but this was of no avail. The inscription relates that at this, directed by his guru Siddhāntadeva, he repeated the five obeisances and died in the prescribed manner.
We now come to Uddhare (mod. Udri), a great city also in the Sohrāb tāluka. It continued to be a Jaina seat from the Hoysala times. In Uddhare lived the Jaina lead
1. The Jainas also constructed basadis. Nāgi Setji and Seni Sețți, "of prosperous Banavasi”, constructed a basadi probably at Hire Cauti in the Sohrab täluka in the reign of king Bukka Rāya I. The basadi was dedicated to Sānti Jineśvara, but the year cannot be made out. M. A. R. for 1928. p. 84.
2. E. C. VIII. Sb. 200, p. 32. An official of the house of the Mahāprabhu Tavanidhi Bomma, was also a disciple of this guru, Ibid.
3. Ibid, Sb. 196, p. 31. 4. Ibid, Sb. 52, p. 9,
a E.C. VIII.S
