The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.233

c8.s13.233

⁵ Another epigraphic trace of it, as late as the end of the eleventh century, is furnished by the Dambal inscription which records grants made to *vihâras* of Buddha and Ârya-Târâdêvî at that town in A. D. 1095 (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. X. p. 185). And the statement that Êkântada-Râmayya, who started the revival of ‘Saivism about the middle of the twelfth century (see chapter V. below, under the account of Bijjala), was deputed to overthrow both the Jains and the Buddhists, implies that even then Buddhism had by no means sunk into insignificance in this part of the country.