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KO' ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. : of a like kind are worshipped in the streets of Pittapuram by Hindus under the name of Sanyāsi. Dēvulų (ascetic gods). Pittapuram= Skt. Pishtapuri Skt.=Pristapuri : is so called after the Jaina goddess Pristapuri Dēvi. The Jalluru Kaiphiyat shows how it once was a flourishing Jaina city. Many large rivetted wells in the Nagaram and Amalapuran taluqs are still known as “ Jaina Wells.”
Ratnagiri and Kambaduru in the Anantapur District, Lachmēsvara, Nayakallu and Yacha• varam in Kurnool District, Kuřugodu, Pedda
Tumbalan and Chinna Tunbalam in Bellary District also contain traces, of Jainism not yet adequately explored.
Another interesting fact brought out by these epigraphs is that in the Andhra-Karnāta districts in which the Hindu Revival was so powerfully organised by Sāyana-Mādhava, the real founder of the city of Vijayanagar, Jainism fared better under the Vijayanagara Kings than at the hands of the Revivalists in the Andhra districts proper. The point is interesting in that it shows that the influence of a Hindu Revival strictly based on the Vaidica and Upanishadic tradition is bound to be more catholic and tolerant of differences of religious 'opinion than religious sects starting from a narrower point of view. In support of these observations may be noticed a few grants of the early Vijayanagar Kings to professedly Jain foundations
