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not yet been diecovered. Perhaps their traces are completely lyst on account of the steady persecution of the Jainas and powerful propaganda against them .started in the district by the Kötas of Dhānyakataka and the Parichchēdi-Pūšapātis of Bezwada.
The Kalachumbarru grant of the sanie king, Anima II, refers to grants to a Sarvalūkāsraya Jina Bhavana in that village. This temple is yet to be found out.
The Kanupartipādu inscription from the Nellore District refers to the “ pællichchandum " of a Jinālaya named after, Karikālachoda, the traces of which are yet to be recognised.
The Bhögapuram inscription from the Vizagapatan District refers to a Jina foundą tion of that place called Rāja Rāja Jinālaya, the location of which remains to be marked out.
The inscription in the Anjaneyaswami temple in Nandi-pēruru in the Bellary District registers gifts for the worship of Jina. The Jaina shrine to which this inscribedl slab from the Anjaneya temple must have belonged is yet to be identified.
Nor is this all. There are vet regions in the Andhra and Karnāta mandalas, supposed to contain Jaina relics, which •still await exploration by scholars official or otherwise interested in Indian Antiquities. Some of these deserve mention for the additional evidence they offer
1 Mr. K. V. Lekshmana Rao, near the Bezwada Railway StaM.A., Aays that the traces of a tion. It may turn out to be Jaina temple are newly discovered or Bauddha (4th June 1922.)
Unbroken ground.
