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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM Rāya, the son of king Deva Rāya I, in A.D. 1412.1
The well known city of Vanavāsa (Banavase) was the headquarters of a branch of the Balātkāra gaña. It was from here that Vardhamānasvāmi, described as “the moon in causing to swell the ocean the Tattvārtha," and Vanavāsasvāmi, another Jaina guru, hailed, as mentioned in records dated A.D. 1372 and 1400 respectively, cited already by us in an earlier context.2
More famous than the above was the city of Gērasoppe (in the mod. Honnāvara tāluka, Bombay Presidency), which played a very significant part in the history of the western part of Karnāțaka in the fifteenth and sixteenth century A.D. The rulers of Gērasoppe were matrimonially connected with the House of Sangitapura and that of Kārkaļa. They as well as their citizens were responsible for raising the name of Gērasoppe in the Jaina world. Gērasoppe springs into fame in the middle of the fourteenth century due to the activities of its wealthy citizens, although as a political unit it had already made a name for itself earlier. In those ages it belonged to Tuļuva, its rulers themselves being of Tuluva origin. In the Vardhamāna basadi inscription of that city, it is called an ornament to the face of the Nagiri countryNagiradeśavemba lalana mukhakke vesedirp-i Gērasoppe.3
A prominent Jaina leader of Gērasoppe was Rāmaņa. He was the son of Somana Daņņāyaka and the brother of Kāmaņa Daņņāyaka. Somaņa Daņqanāyaka was one of the generals of the chieftain of Candāvūru, by name Basavadeva, who had become conspicuous in the history of Tuļuva.+ Since Somara was said to have belonged to the Ksa1.596 of 1905 ; Rangacharya, Top. List. I. p. 545. 2. E. C. II. 274, 275, p. 125, op. cit. 3. M. A. R. for 1928, p. 97. 4. Read Saletore, Ancient Karnātaka, I. p. 286.
