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JAINA CELEBRITIES IN THE VIJAYANAGARA EMPIRE 373 ing. The same Padmāyati basti record gives us many details of his success at the various provincial and imperial courts. In the assembly of the Nañjarāyapattana king, Nañja Deva, he completely stopped the breath of the great (Saiva) teacher called Nandanamalli Bhatta, and won renown. Destroying the European faith at the court of the Agent of Śrīranganagara (Śrīranganagara Kāryyana Perangiya mataman asidu) in a learned assembly, he brought Śāradā into his power. Then, in the undisturbed court of the Sātavendra (or śāntavendra), Rāja Kesarivikrama, he uttered a poem which was noised throughout the world. Moreover, in the assembly of the enlightened men who formed the court of the king Sālva Malli Rāya, he excused the language of those in authority. In the court of another ruler called Gurunspāla, which resembled an ear of the ocean-girdled earth, he composed an able Karnātaka work and gained fame. In the court of king Sāluva Deva Rāya, equal in good fortune to Vāsava (Indra), he was victorious in proving the doctrines of all the speakers to be false, and in pleasing that king. In the learned assembly of the Nagiri kingdom, he made the company of the learned to sip the immeasurable sweetness of the nectar of his speech. In the court of king Narasimha of Biļige, who was courageous as Kalasodbhava (Agastya), he elucidated the Jina darśana. In the court of the ruler of Kārkaļanagara, the great king Bhairava, he expounded the most excellent Jina dharma, so as to attract the mind, and distinguished himself. And likewise in the assembly of the Bhavyajana of the town of Bidire, whose hearts were adorned with wisdom and pure character, he explained the established faith. Vādi Vidyānanda was worshipped with devotion by the king Sāluva Krşņa Deva, who was the sister's son of the king Deva Rāya, and the moon to the ocean Padmāmbā. And in the great imperial capital of Vijayanagara of Krsna Deva
