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20 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. o Rāmathirtham,'near Vizianagram, then a great centre of Jaina culture. This fact is recorded thus in a Kannada inscription at Rāmathirtham (that the language of the inscription is Kannada shows that that language was well understood in Rāmathīrtham, a place distinctly Andhra in foundation and tradition) :
1. స్వస్తి సవ్వ లో కాశ్రయ శ్రీవిష్ణువర్ధన మహారాజగాజు మాత్తా, ముమ్మడి భీమనవొరుగల్ . 2. శ్రీమ దోషిగణాచాయ్య- రుం Sage ..... dowj0236860 soqogasnog Boga.... 3. t Logo Bolisasi spioradgar [K] 0x80... 4.
శ్రీత్రికాళయోగిమునీ స్టర్ క్రమమజిదచ్చి సి (భక్తి యొళమితం) శ్రీ రామకొద్దిమంబన్షి సిదర్ |
The ancestors of the Vimalāditya, Mummadı Bhīma, of the above excerpt, were them selves patrons of Jainism which perhaps was the original faith of the early members of the Chalukya family in West Deccan. The facts relevant to this point are thus,summed up by the Epigraphist with the Government of Madras :-(Cf. M. Ep. Rep. 1917–18).
“ Vishnuvardhana III of the Eastern Chalukya dynasty made a grant in S. 684 which registers evidently the renewal of an earlier grant of the village Musinikunda in Tõnka N [ā]ta-v[ā]di-vishaya to the [Jaina] teacher Kālibhadrāchārya. The queen of the King Kubjavishnuvardhana I influenced the grant of a village to a Jaina Basti at Bījavada. Amma II has made grants to Jaina temples and patronised the grant of a Jaina Srāvaki
