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Mutual tolerance.
16 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. unearth the actual traces of Rājāvalis and civilisations in the Andhra-Karnāta dēsa for the period between the decay of the Satavahanas and the rise of the Chalukyas. Much of this period is too readily supposed to be covered by the rule of the Pallavas, the tradition of whom is not as clear in the AndhraKarnāta records and literature as in those of the Drāvida country.
Instances of the liberalism of the Jainas, and the followers of the Vaidịca Dharma towards each other deserve particularly to be placed on record, for, they account largely for the great figure that Jainisti could make even amidst adverse forces. The accounts of the foundation of Warrangal, so intimately associ" ated with the Andhra dynasty of the Kākatiyas, record that Mādhavavarma, the founder of this dynasty, acquired the means of sovereign power by worshipping a goddess located in an underground temple near about the present site of Warrangal. Tradition as recorded in the Warrangal Kaiphiyat says that there was a hill called Hanumadyiri to the isānya of Hidimbāsrama in North. Dandaka, the seat of dēvas and rishis. This was discovered by a person called Ekāmbaranāthà (the muni with a single cloth). He founded near it a village called Hanumadgiri (Anumakonda) and established several deities in it-Siddhēsvara in the middle, Dēvi Padmākshi in the west, Garga sakti in the north, Gõpālamarti in the south and
