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Paper presented at the All India Seminar (Jainological Research Society), Delhi, 1975 and published in Jaina Journal; Vol.X.1, 1975. Samavāyanga Sutta, 110, Suttāgame I, Gudagaum 1953, p.346. This tradition, on such evidences, has been accepted as a fact of history by eminent scholars like Rice, Smith, Aiyangar-Sheshagiri Rao, Sharma, Saletore, etc. We come across such words and phrases in early inscriptions (vide Epigraphia Carnatica, Vol.II) and works like the Vaddaradhane, Camundaraya Purāna, etc., Kesiraja also has collccted several such words in the Apabhramsa Chapter of his Sabdamanidarpana. The figure "three and a half” has still remained a hard nut 10 crack for scholars. It is worth noting at this juncture that the great teachers like Kunda-Kunda and Vattakera had already composed their Prakrit works of high order in this region and the same tradition was continued later by others like Yativrsabha, Joindu, Nemicandra, Puspadanta, etc. These have been noted at length by me in my paper Influence of Middle Indo-Aryan Literature on Kannada Literature', presented at the All-India Fifth Seminar on Prakrit Studies, Ahmedabad, March 1973. The Kavirājamārga of Nrpatunga or Amoghavarsa 1, the famous Rāstrakūta King. The Chandombudhi of Nagavarma I.
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