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Jaina Inscriptions related to the Ratta Chieftains: 33 King Raja is said to have erected at Sindana-Kalpole, a place of retreat for the high-minded devotees of the God Śantinatha and presented it to his spiritual preceptor Subhacandra Bhaṭṭārakadeva. Another Ratta chieftain Śrī-Kārtavīryadeva gave a grant of a cultivated land measuring two thousand kambas to the temple at Sindana-Kalpole, which was built by king Rāja for the purposes of angabhoga and rangabhoga of God Śantinātha, for the purpose of repairing anything belonging to the temple that might be broken or torn or worn out and for the purpose of providing food, wholesome medicine and instruction in the sacred scriptures for the holy men living there. The abvoe king is said to be the high-priest of the province as well as of the Jaina temple of God Śantinatha grant every boon to king Raja that he asks for. The present inscription shows king Rāja not only as a patron of Jainism but also as being a Jaina follower.
Inscription no. VIII" is on a stone that was formerly erected inside a Jaina temple at Konur, the ancient Kondanuru, in the Gokak Taluka of Belgaum district. The inscription mentions Calukya king Tribhuvanamalla or Vikramaditya II and is inscribed during the reign of his son Jayakarṇa. According to Fleet Jaykarna's name does not occur in Sir W. Elliot's list of Calukya kings nor in Mr. Wathen's summary as given in Thomas' edition of Princep's Antiquities. Two subordinate governors of Jayakarṇa are mentioned-Camaṇḍa, the Daṇḍādhipa or commander of the forces, who was governing the country of Kuṇḍī, and the Maṇḍaleśvara or chieftain king Senā, whose designation is not specified. The Senā introduced here is probably the second of that name in the list of the Rattas.
At the starting of the inscription Lord Jina is requested to bless the king Nidhiga (who belongs to the family or sect called Balātkāragaṇa who held the position of high-priests at Kondanuru under king Senā) with long life and riches and is said to be desirous of emancipation. This king Nidhiga or Nidhiyama or Nidhiyamagamanda built in Kondanuru a shrine of Jina and granted to it two mattaras of cultivated land, twelve houses, one oil-mill and one garden in the Saka year 1009 (A.D. 1087-88).
