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12 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
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Jaina facrifice.
a village called Jammalamaduyu in the present Andhra-Karnāta tountry. The tradition is also borne witness to by an early Kannada inscription assigned by C. P. Brown to A.D. 1029 or 1089. The inscription states that a general of Sreeman Mahāmandalēsvara Trailökyamalla Dēva called Chandra Dandanāyaka and his wife fell heroically fighting in a battle occasioned by a Woundary-dispute between two villages called Kurimari and Pasapula. There is a Virkal describing this heroism in the former village fixed in the temple of Tallakantisvarī by whose favour king Trailökyamalla had a son Bhīma Dēva and henceforward become devoted to her. Just as the inscription brings out the heroism of Indian manhood and womanhood trained under the hardy discipline of Jainism and its contempt for life in the service of Dharma or righteousness, so does the story of the foundation of the Jaina deity in Kurinari betray the influence, in Andhra-Karnāta Jainism, of the enveloping aspects of the more ancient V&idica Dharma and even of the much earlier sacrificing faiths of the primitive forest tribes. A body of Jaina immigrants reached the heast of the forest near Jammalamadugu, and discovered traces of human habitation there. They fixed a good day for the founding of a new village on that ancient site and first established their Sakti, on it, called Daitamma and wanted to offer a goat sacrifice. They went in search of a goat and finding near by a yolla tending his sheep and
