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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 343 basadi. The gift was made for the peace of the departed queen Tangaladevi.1
An ardent ruler of Gērasoppe in A.D. 1523 was Immadi Deva Rāya Odeyar. He was the son of Bhairavāmbã and of the Pāņdya king who is unnamed in the record. Immaţi Deva Rāya is called the popular Devabhūpa. The record makes him the ruler of the Nagiri (i.e., Gērasoppe), Haive, Tuļu, Konkaņa, and other kingdoms. He granted in A.D. 1523 specified lands in the village of Banduvāla for the worship and festivals of the god Candranātha in the Sankha Jina basadi of Lakşmaņeśvara. This charity, it may be observed, was to be carried out by the school of Candraprabhadeva of the Desiya gana. The cosmopolitan nature of the people is seen in the concluding lines of the epigraph which declare that he who violated the grant was to be considered guilty of the slaughter of sages on the ürjanta hill, the slaughter of cows on the banks of the Ganges and the Godāvarī, and as having violated the charities carried on at Sriparvata and Tirumale. Excepting Ürjanta (Girnar), the other places are usually associated with the Brahmans.2
The close contact between Gērasoppe and other kingdoms seen in the above records, is further corroborated by another inscription found on the Govardhanagiri fort, and assigned to A.D. 1560. This record gives us very many details relating to the commercial magnates of Gērasoppe. The ruler mentioned in this inscription is Deva Rāya whom we identify with Immadi Deva Rāya on the following grounds. In the first place, in the Sode Jaina matha copper plate ins
1. M. A. R. for 1928, pp. 94-95.
2. This copper-plate grant was found in the Jaina basadi of Sode. M.A.R. for 1916, p. 69,
