[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c46.212 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.212 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.212 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c46.212](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.212) 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. - [Previous: v2.c46.211](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.211) - [Next: v2.c46.213](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.213) - [Up: v2.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.212](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.212) · Pramāṇa