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60' ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM :
Records 5 verses arranged in.
Jwenty-five squares and praising the
• Tirthankara. Mudabidire. On the east, porth and west faces
(k) of a pillar in the Bhairavi mantapa.
A record in praise of Mahāmandalēgvara Sālvamalla. (k) On another pillar in the same mantapa. Records 5 verses in praise of Tirthankaras arranged in 25
octagons. (k) On a slab built into the wall of
the Kshētrapāla shrine in the Hosa basti. An inscription of the Vijayanagara King Virūpāksharāya II (1465-88 A.D.) in S. 1398, Duf-. mukhi. Mentions Singappa. Dan
danāyaka and Vittarasa Odeya. From these epigraphs we learn some details about the great ascetics and achāryas who spread the gospel of Jainism in the Andhra-Karnāia dēsa. They were not only the leaders of lay and ascetic disciples, but of royal dynasties of warrior clans thas held the destinies of the peoples of these lands in their hands. Since some glimpses of the lines on which they influenced the administration of these lands by their warrior pupils are presently to be described in the sequel the details regarding them as given in the epigraphs noticed above mav be remembered :
Details about Jaina ächāryas.
