A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c20.s1.2

c20.s1.2

In the north-west of the Deccan also, new vihāras were coming up on behalf of Buddhism late in the ninth century. Thus, in 853, a monk from Bengal built a great monastery (mahāvihāra) in Krishnagiri (Kaṇheri) for the use of the sangha and endowed it with one hundred gold drammas. In the same neighbourhood a meditation hall was constructed for monks in 877 by a minister of the Śilāhāras of Konkan, and other endowments are recorded at the same time and place for the regular worship of the Buddha.