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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM the guru of that name whom we have already placed in the fourteenth century. The name Ghanaśoka bali is evidently another name for the Panasõge (or Hanasõge) bali to which Lalitakirti belonged.1
To the latter part of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century A.D., belong the following epigraphs dealing with a devout queen of Gērasoppe. She was sāntaladevi, the daughter of Bommaņa śețți, and the queen of Haivannarasa. This ruler was the son of king Mangarāja. śāntaladevi was a very pious lady, who died in the orthodox manner in about A.D. 1405.2
The ruler Mangarāja mentioned above is called the sonin-law of king Haiveyarāja in the Jvālāmukhi temple record of Gērasoppc. He is to be identified with Mangabhūpa who married Jakkabbarasi, the daughter of Haivannarasa and Honnabbarasi, mentioned in the record standing close to Nagarakēri in Gērasoppe. This latter record dated A.D. 1421 also informs us that Mangarāja's brother-in-law Padmaņņarasa granted land valued at four honnu for the service of the god Pārsvanātha and for the repairs of the
1. Dr. Shama Sastry assigns this record to the latter part of the sixteenth century A.D., on the assumption that the names Kallappa and Ajana are identical with those found in an inscription No. 112 (M. A. R. for 1928, p. 102). This is inadmissible. No. 112 does not contain the names Kallappa and Ajana, but No. 105, p. 99, does. Secondly, the names Ajana and Kallappa as given in No. 107 are those of commercial magnates; while in No. 105 Kallapparasa is called the ruler of Irandur and Ajanrpa, king of Kuntalanādu. If these rulers were identical, one cannot understand why their status should have been omitted by the scribes.
2. This date is based on that of the death of Mangarāja in A.D. 1405. M.A.R. for 1928, pp. 99-100.
