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MEDI.EVAL JAINISM tion to the well known city from which this celebrated Jaina teacher hailed, there were others which we may now describe in chronological order.
Towards the beginning of the sixteenth century three places continued to be Jaina centres---Kopana, Narasimharājapura, and Sringeri. Kopaņa had, as we have already seen, won for itself a name as the mahātīrtha of the Jainas. It continued to be a commercial town of some standing. This is gathered from the fact that commercial leaders named Gummata Setti, Danada setti, and a third one whose name is effaced in the record, went on a visit from Kopana to Sravana Belgoļa in about A.D. 1536.1
Of the other centres, there is every reason to believe that Sringeri was a more ancient Jaina stronghold than Narasimharājapura. The history of the latter place dates back to the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D. We gather this from an epigraph on the image of Sāntinātha in the śāntinātha basadi in that place, assigned to A.D. 1300. This image was caused to be made by Candiyakka, the lay disciple of Cagiyabbeganti of Uddhare. Narasimharājapura was a prosperous Jaina centre at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Two inscriptions on the pedestal of the Caturvimšati Tirthankara and the Ananta Tīrthankara images in the Candranātha basadi at the same place, contain the following information-That Doddana setti, the son of Bögāra Devi Setti, had the former image presented to the Candranātha basadi at Narasimharājapura; while Gummana setti, the son of Nemi Sețţi, had the latter image presented to the basadi at Singanagadde which lies to the west of Narasimharājapura.
1. E. C. II, 191, p. 91. 2. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 84.
