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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 341 triya kula, Rāmaņa also claimed Kşatriya descent. The damaged record which gives us these details describes thus the citizens of Gērasoppe :—Ā Gerasoppeya mahā-janamgala gunagal ent-endode adaroļu nānājāti paradar agranī samyaktvarāda-7-Jainar-padevar Jaina-mārggāśraya jalanidhi samvardhita pürna-candrar mundamam krodhādhi... mādudgha-perkuļan-ivar-biļļu. And one of these Jaina citizens was Ilonnapa Setti who was related to the family of Rāmaņa. It was this Honnapa sețți and others, whose names are effaced in the record, who gave some grant to the Vardhamāna basadi of Gērasoppe.1
Another Jaina citizen of that centre was Yojana Seçți, whose wife was Rāmakka. This lady had built the Anantatirtha caityālaya at Gērasoppe. She is highly praised in thc inscription for her virtues. She was especially known for her four kinds of gists (catur-vidha-dāna). On her death in A.D. 1392 a memorial stone was set up near the Vardhamāna basadi at Gērasoppe.?
To this age (the latter part of the fourteenth century A.D.) we have to assign the activities of two commercial leaders of Gērasoppe-Ajana, the son of Kallappa śreşthi and of Māmāmbā, and Kallappa Śreşthi, the son of õjaņa. These were the disciples of Devendra Sūri whose guru was Lalitakirti Bhattāraka of the Deśiya gaña and Ghanaśoka baļi. Ajana and Kallappa śesti caused an image of Mūdejina to be made in the Nagarakēri basadi of that city.3
This record is undated. But we may assign it to the fourteenth century A.D. on the following grounds. Lalitakirti, who has been mentioned herc, was perhaps no other than
1. M. A. R. for 1928, p. 97. 2. Ibid, pp. 97-98. 3. Ibid, p. 95.
