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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE
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Mūdubidre to-day contains a fast dwindling Jaina population, but it is still held in the highest veneration by the Jaina world. It is called Jaina Kāśi, and has the other names of Venupura (or Vamśapura) and Vratapura. There are in all eighteen basadis in this small town, and among them the most famous is the Guru basadi. This basadi is reputed to possess the famous manuscripts called Dhavaļa, Mahādhavala and Jayadhavala. It is for this reason also called the Siddhānta basadi.1 The Hosa basadi referred to above is also known as the Tribhuvantilakacūdāmaņi basadi ; and because of its 1.000 pillars and other architectural attractions, still continues to draw lovers of art.2
Another centre of Jainism in Tuļuva was Basarūru. The settis, or heads of the commercial guilds, of Basarūru in Śaka 1353 (A.D. 1421-2), during the reign of the Emperor Deva Rāya II, gave specified gifts in kind for the Jaina basadi of that town. This basadi was probably dedicated to Candranātha. For during the reign of the same monarch a money gift of twenty-four gad yāņas was made to it.
Turning from the province of Tuļuva to the northern parts of Karnāšaka, we find that Kolhāpur (Kollāpura) owed its greatness to the renowned guru Māghanandi. We have already seen that Kollāpura had become well known in the twelfth and thirteenth century A.D. It continued to be a great seat of Jainism in the middle of the fifteenth century A.D. In about A.D. 1440 the guru of that centre was
1. Buchanan noted it. A Journey through Madras, etc., II. p. 254.
2. Cf. B. Nemiraja Heggade, Tuļunādina basadigaļu, p. 3. (Manglore, 1925) ; Lokanatha Sastri, op. cit., pp. 20-21.
3. Rangacharya, Top. List., II, p. 850. 4. Ibid. M, J. 12
