The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.95

c20.95

Part of the charity that flowed into the temples was usefully utilised. It will be shown in Chapter XVI how many of the temples of our period used to maintain schools and colleges. They were very often disharging the duty of poor-relief by maintaining feeding houses. Abu Zaid refers to these when he mentions inns for travellers attached to temples.(71) Epigraphical evidence proves the existence of many such feeding houses maintained in temples; one existed at Kolagallu in Bellary district in 964 A.D.(72) and others existed at Managoli,(73) Nilgund,(74) Hesarge,(75) Bagewadi,(76) Belgamve,(77) Dambal,(78) Gadag,(79) and Behatti(80) in Karnatak and Kharepatan⁸¹ in Konkan. Some of the records mentioning the above feeding houses do not fall strictly within our period, but they are mentioned here to give an idea of the general practice of the age.