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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM monetary transactions were made is not apparent.
We may now continue to narrate a few details about the other Jaina centres in the fifteenth century A.D. Bhārangi was one of them. Like Kuppațur and Gērasoppe, this city owed its greatness to the industrial activities of “wise Bhavyas, learned men, just men, and wealthy men, so that it seemed to be the abode of the goddess of fortune." It was one of the foremost cities of Nāgarakhanda, and it boasted of the great temple Pārsva Jineśa. The Vijayanagara official placed over this city was Gopa Gauda, whose father was Bulļa Gauda. The guru of the latter was Abhayacandra Siddhāntadeva who is called in the record tāyarājagurumandalācārya, mahāvādivadiśvara, tāyavādipitāmaha, and one who was fully versed in Siddhānta. “His mind was bent on shutting up the Bauddha speakers. Having overcome the Sänkhyas, the Yaugas, the Cārvākas, the Bauddhas, the Bhāțțas, and the Prābhākas, what other speakers can withstand him ? ”, asks the scribe of the record.
But he was not the guru of Gopaņa Gauda whose spiritual teachers were Panditācārya and Srutamunipa. The work these two Jaina gurus did is given in the epigraph thus "One (Panditācārya) to tum Gopaña from evil ways, and the other (śrutamuni) to lead him into good ways.” Having enjoyed all the good of this world, and desiring the good of the next, Gopaņa died by the rite of samādhi in A.D. 1415.1
Prabhu Gopaņa's laudable example was followed by his son Bulla (II). The guru of this official was Abhayacandra, who was the disciple of Devacandramuni whose guru was Srutamuni mentioned above. From this record we learn that the spiritual adviser of Bhārangi belonged to the Mūla sangha, Nandi gaña, Pustaka gaccha, and Desiya gana. Buļļappa
1. E. C. VIII. Sa. 329, p. 58.
