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cription Immaḍi Deva Raya is said to have ruled over the prosperous city of Kşemapura which was another name for Gerasoppe. In the Govardhanagiri record, too, he is said to be the ruler of Gerasoppe. The genealogy of the ruler as given in the Sode matha grant and in the Govardhanagiri inscription is identical. In the former it is said that the queen Bhairavamba had a brother named Saluva Malla, that her son by the Pandya king was Immaḍi Deva Raya. In the Govardhanagiri record it is stated that king Bhairava had three younger brothers named Bhairava, Amba, and Saluva Malla who was the greatest. Their sister, who is unnamed in the Govardhanagiri record, had a son named Deva Raya who had a sister, the mother of Saluva Malla (II) and of Bhairava (II). Further in both the records Sāluva Immaḍi Deva Raya is said to be ruling over the Haiva, Tulu, Konkaņa, and other countries, the Sode matha grant adding the name Nagirirajya. And, finally, both are essentially Jaina records.2
The Govardhanagiri inscription is of much importance also from the point of view of the chief city itself, its rich commercial leaders, and the public charities they did in the name of the Jina dharma. The Jaina citizens had made
1. The descent of the rulers of the Gerasoppe, Sangitapura, and probably of Karkala principalities, was according to the female succession (aliya-santāna kaṭṭu), through sister's son. 2. Perhaps it is not unlikely that the rulers of Gerasoppe, held sway over Sangitapura at this time. The similarity in their names, the Saluva family to which they belonged, and the law of succession in the female line which governed themall these point to it. The Gerasoppe, Kārkaļa, and Sangitapura rulcrs were dynastically connected with each other. See Rangacharya, Top. List, II. p. 852. But this point is beside our purpose,
