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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 349 type actually took place about this time, and its credit goes to the Gērasoppe ruler Sāluva Immadi Deva Rāya. The Govardhanagiri record cited above tells us that by king Deva Rāya, lord of Kşemapura, was performed in the Kali yuga, what had been done by the great Indra, the worldastounding head-anointing ceremony of Gummațādhiếa, in the same manner as if it were his birth-anointing.1 We have no direct information as to the exact date of the performance of this ceremony in the Govardhanagiri record. But on the basis of the four cases of mortgage deeds by Cavuļi sețți of Gērasoppe, we may safely infer that the head-anointing ceremony of Gummațanātha by king Deva Rāya took place in A.D. 1539 which certainly falls within his reign. To express his joy at such an event of universal importance, Cavudi sețți may have released the mortgage deeds of his debtors in Sravana Belgoļa.
The Jaina gurus of Gērasoppe, it may not be out of place to note here, wielded considerable influence in this age. Their relationship with the well known pontifical seats of Tuļuva will be pointed out later on. For the present we may note that in A.D. 1583 they were reckoned to be rather wealthy too. This may account for the fact that Vīrasenadeva, the disciple of Gunabhadradeva of Gērasoppe, purchased wet land of the sowing capacity of nine khandugas from the Dāniväsa chief Cennavira Odeyar, for a sum of thirty-two varāhas. Two years later (A.D. 1585) the same Jaina priest Vīrasena bought for thirty varāhas another plot of land situated in scaladāļa also from the same chief. And in A.D. 1585 once again Virasena purchased from the same Dānivāsa chief specified wet land for forty varāhas. The reason why these
1. E. C. VIII. Sa. 55, p. 101.
2. M. A. R. for 1931, pp. 106-112. See E. C. VI. Kp. 21-24, pp. 79 for an incomplete account of some of these transactions,
