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JAINA MONUMENTS
It will thus be clear that whatever dynasty was master of the land, Jainism was likely to recente support from it. There secins, however, to be no cvidence of such continuous support to Bud(Ihim. The fall of thc Kalachutya dynasty in the Dckklan was perhaps a death blow to South Indian Jainism. But we find that it continued to flourish even after that in the Tuluva (Guntry. It lias been rightly contended that for well nigh a millennium and half. Jainism was quite alive and active" and that "even now, unlike Buddhism, it has a considerable number of followers in the South, no less than in the North."
14 : TRICHINOPOLY
ANCIENT NAME OF TRICHINOPOLY: At Tuichino poly which was visited during the year, scine interesting discoveries were made. Ils ancient name as found in the lymns of Jñanasamnbardha in the Devaram is Chirapalli and the same occurs also in the long verse inscription of about the uth century A.D. engraved in the Pallava cave on the hill. This name was in Vogue for several centuries in inscriptions as well as in literature, until the time of thc Vijayanagara rulers, in a few of whose records, however, the form 'Tiruchchinäpalli' was sometimes used, and this has given rise to the modern Anglicised name 'Trichinopoly'. The word palli appears to have, in this case, special reference to its association with thc Jaina religion, ancient vestiges of which have now been discovered here.
CAVERN WITH BEDS AND EPIGRAPHS AT TRICHINOPOLY: Behind the huge boulder which contains the shrine of god Uchchi-Pillaiyāra on the top of the fort-rock at this
