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THE ANEKĀNTAMATA IN THE EMPIRE 361 views. This is seen, for instance, from a record dated A.D. 1277 of the time of the senior crowned queen Kāļala Mahā. devī, when on the great days of the gods Kalašanātha and Jineśvara, a citizen named Madhava, the son of Kāla šesti, made a specified grant of rice and land to the gods.?
The Sāntaras moved their capital from Kalaša still further down to Kārkaļa somewhere at the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D. One of the chiefs who materially contributed to the spread of Jainism in this age in Tuļuva was Lokanātharasa. He was the disciple of Cărukirti Panditadeva, who had, among other titles, that of Ballasarāyacittacamatkāra. During the regime of Lokanātharasa in Śaka 1256 (A.D. 1334), his elder sisters Bommaladevi and Somaladevī, along with some prominent State officials among whom figured Allappa Adhikāri, gave specified grants to the basadi of Santinātha at Kārkaļa which had been built by Kumudacandra Bhațţārakadeva, the chief disciple of Bhānukirti Maladhārideva of the Müla sangha and the Krāņūr gana. Since Lokanātharasa bears the birudas of samastabhuvanāśraya, śri-pịthvīvallabha, and mahārājādhirāja, which were usually assumed only by independent monarchs, we are to suppose that he exercised some independent sway in the Kārkaļa region in the middle of the fourteenth century A.D.2
Sometime after him the Kārkaļa rulers came gradually under the influence of the Lingāyat faith. But they continued to be warm supporters of the Jina dharma. We prove this from records ranging from the middle of the fif
1. E.C. VI. Mg. 67, p. 72. 2. 71 of 1901 ; S.I.I., VII, 247, pp. 124-125.
3. See E.C. VI. Mg. 39-42, 50, 54, 60, pp. 68-70 for examples to prove that the Bhairava rulers of Kārkala were Saivas.
