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Thus the Middle Indo-Aryan Literature in Jaina Saurasent, Ardhamagadbi, Apabbraṁśa, Paisācs and Mabārāştri, has influenced, at times indirectly, the Kannada literature in varied ways and in different degrees in different periods of its history86 and made it rich and colour. ful. And the Jaina teachers and scholars have a prominent role in this process right from the days of its foundation,
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This study, howover, is not claimed 4s exhaustive.
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