Religion and Culture of the Jains

Author(s): D C Sirkar
Publisher: University of Calcutta

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SM. R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI
at Pūņdi in the North Arcot District.78 It is now known as the Ponninātha temple. Under a later Šāmbhuvarāya chieftain of the middle of the 14th century, a private individual provided for a metal image of the deity to be made at Tirumalai.74
The Cedirāyas and Kādavarāyas, feudatories under the Colas in the 12th-13th centuries, made liberal endowments to the Appāņdār temple at Tiruarunngondai. This temple, which contains two shrines dedicated to Candraprabha and Pārsvanātha, is called Nārpattennāyirapperumpalli probably after a merchant corporation of the Cola period. 78
Kopperuñjinga, the greatest of the Kādavarāya rulers, seems to have been a great patron of the Jain faith in the 13th century A.D. His inscriptions show that he endowed several Jain institutions in Tondaimaņdalam with gifts. Tirupparuttikunram received his benefactions in the form of additions to the temple, apart from other grants.76 The Kun thunātha temple at Karandai was the recipient of his largesses.". This 'Pallavar Kon' or 'Alagiya Pallavan' was also the patron of the Vardhamāna temple at Tirakkol in the North Arcot District.78
Under the Pāņdyas. The Pāņdyas of the second empire did not withhold their patronage from the Jain institutions of Tondajmandalam. Two centres in the North Arcot District received their endowments. The temple of Nāyaṇār Aniyādaligiyãi (Bāhubali ?) at Odalavadi was one of the recipients of land grants made about 1271 A.D. 'under Tribhuvanacakravartin Kulasekharadeva (I).7. Similarly, the temple of
73 Ibid., No. 62. 74 Ibid., Vol. 1, No. 70.
75 Nos. 299, 301, 310-11, 313, 317 and 319 of 1939-40; SII, Vol. VII, No. 1311.
76 No. 383 of 1928-29; SII, Vol. VII, No. 399; T. N. Ramachandran, op. cit., p. 47, Ins. No. 17.
77 Nos, 140, 142 and 143 of 1939-40.
78 T. N. Subramanian, South Indian Temple Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 124, pp. 134-35.
79 A. R. Ep., 1939-40 to 1942-43, Part II, para. 53.