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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA. A Sanskrit record of Dēvarāya II, dated S. 1348, Prabhava, at Vijayanagar, mentions the building of a Chaityālayą to Parsvanātha in the Pansupari strzet. • .
At Mudabidire, on the north wall of the Gaddigimantapa in the Hosa basti, right of entrance, there is a record of the .Vijayanagara King Vīra-Dēvarāya IV in S. 1351, Saumya, which refers to the building of a basadi.
On a slab set up in the Gurugala basadi of the same place, there is another epigraph of the Vijayanagara Kiny Vīra-Bukkarāya II (1399---1406), son of Harihararāya II (13771402), in S. 1329, Vyaya, which mentions a gift of land.
At Basrur, a record of Dēvarāya II (142249) in S. 1353 relates the gift of one Kolaga of paddy on every bullock load coming from other places to Basrur, for the benefit of Jain basadi by the Chettis of Basrur.
A classified tabulation of these Jaina Epigraphe epigraphs will easily display other points of Classified. interest bearing on the progress and decay of Jainism in the Andhra and Karnāta districts. The epigraphs are therefore classed here below as (1) Memorial, (2) Architectural, (3) Votive, (4) Iconographic, (5) Votive and Commenda. tory, (6) Commendatory.
