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22. There are, in point of fact, two Kalkeri villages located in two different districts.
An inscription from another Kalkeri (Dharwar Dt Mundargi Tk), on a pedestal of a lost image preserved in the village cāvaļi (pañcāyat-hall) records the sculpting and installation of the Pārsvanātha image (SII. XV. 568. c. 12th c. A.
D. p. 378]. 22.1 Mulgunda was an ancient Jaina centre from the period of Bādāmī Calukyas, i.
e. from early 7th cent. C. E. Inscriptions hail Mulgunda as the city of all the four ages (SII. IV. 40. c. 1020. p. 52; SII XI-i. 97. 1062]. Mulgunda-tīrtha, the holy Mulgunda, had Jaina monasteries and a good number of well-reputed preceptors and authors up to the 16th century. A Sanskrit epigraph on a slab built into the inner wall of the Pārsvanātha basadi at Mulgunda records the death, by the vow of sanyāsana, of Amstayya, son of mahā-pradhāna-heggade Devanna, who was a minister and a bāhattara-niyogādhipati of Tilakarasa of Soratūr (Sorab). Though the charter belongs to a later period, Jina-Pārsva temple belongs to an early period, of 11th cent. A. D. [SII. XV. 615. A. D. 1275. Mulgund (Gadag Dt)] pp. 399-400]. An inscription of the 16th century states that this Pārśva temple was set on fire by the Mohammadans and the preceptor Sahasrakīrti, a disciple of Lalitakīrti, who stayed inside the holy shrine unshaken, was burnt to death who thus vindicated the glory of the Nirgrantha creed (ibid.,
No. 695, 16th cent. A. D. p. 433] 23. A much damaged and undated inscription from Sogi (Bellary Dt/Hadagali Tk)
refers to a Pārsva temple attached to Hanasoge diocese [SII. IX-i. 360. c. 12th
cent. p. 376] 23.1. Kogali, now a small village (Bellary Dt/Hadagali Tk), was one of the ancient
nerve centres of the Nirgrantha faith. It was a tirtha-ksetra where the Ganga-king Durvinīta constructed a sarvotabhadra-jinālaya in the 6th century A. D. and was subsequently renovated in the 11th century by a pontiff Indrakīrty-munindra (SII. IX-i. 117. 1055. pp. 92-93]. One of the many basadis at Kogali is cenna ("handsome') Pārsvadeva's temple. There are epigraphs which register the money grants made by many votaries for the daily ablution of cenna-Pārsvadeva (Ibid.,
346. 1275; Ibid., 347. 1276). 24. A memorial stone in the compound of a saw-mill at Alnāvara (Dharwar Dt/Tk)
states that the śrāvaka Cikkamalli setti, embracing the sallekhana rite, died after 21 days in the premises of Matti-Pāriśveśvara temple [SII. XV. 693. 1505). This Cikka-malli setti was a poet and had composed the Samyaktva-kaumudi, a
Kannada work in Sāngatya-metre, consisting stories of Arhad-dāsa and his wives. 25. At Śrīngeri (Cikkamagalur Dt/NR-pura Tk) a Pārsvanātha basadi was constructed
for the merit of Māri-setti, in the year 1160 (ARIE 1953-54. B-404. A. D. 1160. p. 59). But prior to this, another Parśva temple also existed to which a donation
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