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The village of Karkala, which is mentioned as Karakaja in this inscription (text line 14) and other connected ones, is 18 miles east-south-east of Udipi, the head-quarters of the taluka in which it is situated, and 10 miles north of Mndabidnre. It is the largest Jaina settlement in the South Canara district of the Madras presidency and contains, besides the colossal image of Gamma(a, 4 a number of Jaina temples whioh are mined and ont of repair with the single exception of the Chaturmtikhabasti. 6 This temple is situated opposite to the Jaina mafha 9 at K&rkala, on a hillock? half as high as the hill on which the colossus stands. Hiriyangadi, t.e. 4 the big bdzdr,' which is now a few furlongs distant from K&rkala, but appears, from its very name, to have once formed the commercial quarter of the town, 8 contains, besides some bast is, a beautifully i PiKhel, f 176. 1 Compare Pischel, f 857. 1 Hem. II. 156. 4 A photograph of this colossus is given above, Vol. VII. Plate facing p. 112. • For a detailed description of thii temple bj Mr. Walhouse tee Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 39 f . j Mr. Sturrock*a Bcmth Canara Manual, Vol. I. p. 89 land the Government Epigraphist's Annual Report for 1900-01, paragraph 6. • The Jaina* matha at Kar kala is presided over by a pontiff, just as the ma f has at Mu<Jabidure, Sravana- Belgoja and Hnmcha. He bears the title Lalitakirti and is reported to be the trustee of the Jaina temples at K&rkala and in its neighbourhood. In the inscriptions at Hiriyangadi uear Karka)a, the teachers to whose pontifi* cateKarkala and the surrounding country belonged are generally called Lalitakirti- bhattfirakadeva, with the word Maladhdri prefixed to it in two of them, tiz. Nos. 66- and 70 of the Government Epigraphist's collection for 1901, No. 67 of the same collection makes Lalitakirti the vichdrakarttd or « supervisor ' of the charity recorded therein j and No. 70 says that these teachers - belonged to the Kundaknnda division, were lords of the lineage of Panaiokft. and members of the Ka]6gragana. In v. 4 of the subjoined inscription, which does not mention their division (anvaya), it is stated- that the Lalitakirti* belonged to the Deiigana. Perhaps Ka]6gragana was » local branch of the Deiigana. Panaidka has been identified with Hanasdge in the Mysore State s see above, Vol. VII. p. 110, note 1. » The Inscription gives this hill the name of Chikkabetfa (i.e. * the small hill ') in order to distinguish it from the higher hill on which the colossus is set up. • See 2nd. Ant. Vol. V. p. 40. Digitized by