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MEDIÆVAL JAINISM the damaged record gives the name of the guru as Mallināthadeva.1
From another damaged record dated A.D. 1533-4, evidently of the reign of the Emperor Acyuta Deva Rāya, we gather that Jinendramangalam alias Kuruvaờimidi...in Muttūrukurram and Añjukcţtai in the same Kurram were Jaina centres. The inscription containing these details was found in front of the Jaina Malavanātha temple at Hanumantaguņi, Tiruvādāni tāluka, Rāmnād district.2
But these centres in the Tamil land were not in such a thriving condition as those in Karnāțaka. The basadi of Kurugodu, for instance, received a gift of land from Rāma Rājayya, the elder brother of Lingarājayya, and the grandson of Rāma Rāja Odeyar. This was made for the merit of his father Mallarāja Oļeyar during the reign of the Emperor Sadāśiva Rāya.3
Panditayya, the son of the chief of Brahmans Cikamayya, and a disciple of Cārukīrti Panạitadeva, caused in A.D. 1585 the images of Ādiśvara, śāntīśvara, and Candranātha to be set up in the Ādinātha basadi at Cikka Hanasõge,4 thereby showing that Cikka Hanasõge was still reckoned as a Jaina centre in the last quarter of the sixteenth century A.D.5
But more prominent than any of the strongholds in the northern parts of Karnāțaka were those in Tuļuva to which we must now revert. In addition to the important cities
1. E. C. XII. Si. 14, p. 105. 2.408 of 1907 ; Rangacharya, Top. List., II, p. 1196. 3 63 of 1904 ; Rangacharya, ibid., I, p. 269. 4. M. A. R. for 1913-14, pp. 50-51.
5. See also 59 of 1896, for a gift of land at the request of two Jaina priests Guru Vira Pandita and Kamalavāhana Pandita. This was in A.D. 1517. Was Nagarcoil in the south in any way connected with Jainism ?
