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134 GAZETTEER NOTES. CU. XXV III.
(Continued) foot note on page 183.
ho found himself dishonoured by a
refusal of his invitation, he went
over in resentment to the other
side, and abandoned the Jains to
persecution. ]lj.m3,naja demolished
nearly all the Jain temples at the
capital, said to have been 720 in
iinmher, and used the stones in
embanking the large tank."
(D) Ibid, rol. II, p. 295 :—"« *
Subsequently, about 1117, (?) R5,manuj^charya,
the celebrated apostle
of the Vishnuvite sect, on fleeing
from Dravida to avoid a confession
of faith prescribed by the ChoK
llaja to be ma4e by all his subjects,
which was to establish the superiority
of Siva over Vishnu, took
refuge in the Mysore country,
where he succeeded in converting
from the Jain faith the powerful
Hoysala king, Bitti-Deva, thenceforth
known as Vishnuvardhana.
This royal convert conferred on his
apostle and his followers the tract
of country on each side of the riVer
Kaveri at Srirangapatna, known
by the name of Ashtagrama or
eight townships, over which he
appointed his own officers under the
ancient designations oE Prabhus
and HebbSrs."
(B) Rice's S ravana lielr/ola Inscriptions
(No. 53)! P. 4S :—(Sautala-Devi,
Queen of Vishnuvardhana).
details are also given of lier family,
from which it appears that her
father was the senior preggado
Narasinga, a Saiva, while her
mother was Machikabbe, a devoted
Jaina. The conflict between lier
own position as a Jaina and as the
queen of the now Vaishnava
monarch Vishira-vardhana is reconciled
by the suitement that Jinaud.-
tha was her favourite and Vishnu
" Some
her God."
Rice's Mysore Gazetteer Vol. II, P.
850.— "Belur, in the Pura,nas and
ancient inscriptions, bears the name
of Velapura and Vclnr, and is
styled the Dakshina V4raji3isi or
Southern Benares. Its sanctity is
due to the celebrated temple of
Chenna-Kesara, erected and endowed
by the Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana,
on the occasion of his
exchanging the Jain faith for that
of Vishnu, in the beginning of the
12th century."