An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.212

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Dt Bijapur, in Taluka Jamkhandi (16°30′; 75°20′), a medieval town enclosed in a stone-walled fort, founded in Kuṇḍi-3,000 *viṣaya* in the Krishna valley in c. A.D.1122 by Permaḍideva (Vikramāmditya VI, 1076-1126). The town is surrounded by plain fields of Black Cotton Soil [9.1] with a long range of hill plateaux of sedimentary rocks of sandstone, etc., on the e. In the year of the foundation was built a Jaina *basadi* in the Cāḷukya style dedicated to Neminātha tīrthankara, with a Kannada inscription narrating the foundation of the township, construction of the Jaina *basadi*, grant of land etc., in 1122, grant of certain taxes in 1181 and again grant of further land in 1187. The *basadi* has a *mānāstambha* erected in 1784. There are many other temples of later period of which that of Prabhusvāmin is popular.