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⁵ Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 162. This place is mentioned as Hotalakere in the Basava-Purāṇa, chap. ii, where we are told that it contained seven hundred basadis or Jain temples, and twenty thousand Jain saints; and a narration is given of how Dēvara-Dāsimayya, the Guru of Suggaḷadēvi the wife of king Dēsiṅga, despoiled the Śrāvakas or Jains, and induced Dēsiṅga to adopt the Śaiva or Liṅgāyat religion. The same story is epitomised in the Channabasava-Purāṇa, chap. lyii., 10, which says that Suggaḷe, the wife of the Jinabhakta Dēsiṅga-Baḷḷāḷa, caused her Guru Dēvara-Dāsā to dispute with the Jains, and then, transforming a serpent in a box into a liṅga made of the chandrakānta or moon-stone, she caused him to conquer, and induced her husband to become a Śivabhakta.—In calling Dēsiṅga a Baḷḷāḷa, i.e. a Hoysaḷa, the Channabasava-Purāṇa makes an evident mistake. Dēsiṅga is a conception of Jayasiṃha, which name does not appear among the Hoysaḷas at all. And the coincident mention of Suggaḷe or Suggaḷadēvi and Hotalakere, shews conclusively that the story really refers to the Western Châlukya king Jayasiṃha II.