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10 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. " to tradition, lived and meditated in Konakundala in the Bellary District in the present Andhra-Karnāta country. Yet, scholarship so highly technical, self-centred and self-reflective, so much apart from the main currents of life round about, so insular and intensive, bred a certain type of arrogance which latterly came into violent collision with the propagandistic zeal of the followers of Sankara, Rāmānuja and Basaval and in the intellectual jousts that followed, the Jainas fell sorry and forlorn victims to what appears like self-sought destruction. Nandyāla fell into ruins like many an other such Jaina foundation and became for once nothing but a mound of high ground indicative of desolation and significantly known to later. generations as Jaina pādu. Many of the oddities of life and manners of the Jainas, some of which are noticed in the Nandyāla Kaiphiyat, are derivable directly from the doctrine of Ahimsa alleged to be characteristic of the Jaina and Bouddha protestant faiths. This doctrine is clearly stated in a work called Ratna-Karanda by Samantabhadraswami, one of the celebrated Achāryas of the Jaina pontifical heirarchy.
The Jaina munis had a clean shave to prevent the growth of lice and the possibility of their having to kill them. They swept the path with peacock feathers (barhipincham) wherever they walked, lest they should tread unawares on the tiniest insect. They became digambaras lest
· Soe Basava Purana (Telugu) Chapter 6.
Jain tantastioism.
