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er Baicapa in the reign of king Harihara Raya II. The few incidents in the life of Baicapa, who is called in the record "celebrated", show that he had set an example of an ideal and patriotic subject. The inscription dated A.D. 1380 tells us that the Governor Madhava Raya placed over the Banavase 12,000 province, was faced with a crisis. Some base persons born in the Konkaṇa country, had risen against him. An encounter between the State troops and the rebels took place; and in the engagement Baicapa greatly distinguished himself by slaying many of the Konkanigas, but lost his life. Such was the sense of duty which characterized this loyal citizen that the epigraph comments thus on his death-Doing his master's service to the end, and driving back the hostile force, Baicapa went to the feet of Jina.1
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Baicapa's son was Siriyanna, who was likewise a devout Jaina. If the father had died in the service of the State, the son wished to end his life for the cause of the Jina dharma. Even though Siriyanna was living a happy life with his wife Varadāmbike, yet he requested his guru Munibhadra to grant him "the happy state". And at that favoured time", so the record assigned to A.D. 1400 informs us, when the rain of flowers was falling, and with a noise like thunder the sounds of great drums (bhēri, dundhubi, and maha-muraja) were rolling, singing songs to himself, the sadhu Siriyaņņa swiftly clung to the feet of Jina.2
Uddhare was, indeed, celebrated in the fourteenth cen
1. E. C. VIII, Sb. 152, p. 22.
2. Ibid, Sb. 153, p. 22. The Erega Jinalaya of Uddhare was later on converted into a Saiva temple. M. A. R. for 1931 pp. 65- 66.
