The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c32.132

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There are still other instances of the widespread influence of the Jains in the Kanarese country during the reign of Venkata II. In 1591 a Kanarese Prince named Kinniga Bhupala made a grant for the purpose of maintaining a Jain temple ⁵. In 1586 the Karkala chief Bhairava II built a Jain temple on the Chikkabetta hill at Karkala, set up the images of the three Tirthankaras, Ara, Malli, and Munisuvrata on each of the four faces of the temple, and consecrated at the same time the images of the 24 Tirthankaras and those of the Jains together with those of Brahma and Padmavati. This temple, built at the advice of the Jaina teacher Lalitakirti, was called the temple ' of the three jewels ' ⁶. Its chaturmukhabasti indeed shows down to this day three nude statues of the Tirthankaras strongly resembling each other, carved in black stone, and surrounded by many other idols also naked.