Jaina Bibliography Part 1

SR No.: 016035
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 1070
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jains of the old Pandya country animated by a national and anti-Brahmanical feeling of peculiar strength.
Extent of the Jain period probably from the 8th or 9th century A.D. to the 12th or 13th.
the Pandya country in the reign of Sundar
Jains finally expelled from Pandya.
Tol-Kappaya, a grammar, written at the very commencement of the Jain period, or about the 8th century A.D.
In Tiruvalluvar's age Jainism was rather an esoteric ethical school than an independent objective system of religion. • The poem Chintāmaņi written by a Jain probably in the 10th cent. A.D.
The Nan-nul, a Tamil grammar and the poetical vocabularies written by Jain Scholars came later than Chintāmaņi.
P. ixxxiii. Amirtasakarar, a Jain, was a Sanskrit as well as a Tamil.. scholar. He wrote Karikai, a grammar on Tamil verse.
Appavaiyar, author of Tandava Malai, said to have been a Jain. Appar though born of śaiva parents, entered a Jain monastery-Later returned to Saivism again-Lived about the 10th century A.D.
P. ixxxix. Mandala Purudar, a Jain ascetic, said to have lived in the time of Raja Krisna Rayar who reigned at Vijayanagar in the beginning of the 16th century-wrote tho poetic lexicon Churāmaņi Nikända.
P. xcii. Pavanandi, a Jain living at Sanakapur--wrote the Tamil grammar Nan-nul.
P. xciv. Kuna Pandya, first a follower of the Jain religion, afterwards embraced Saivism under the influence of Sambandar, and was induced by him to impale 8000 Jains at Madura.
Pp. 65-66. Some finest compositions in the Tamil language are attributed to the Jains-Jains increased by immigrations from the north-At first the Buddhist and the Jain sects lived peacefully together in South India-Defeat of the Buddhists in a great dispute in the reign of Himaśítala, the Buddhist king of Conjeveram, about 800 A.D.-Jains overcome by the Saivas, headed by Sambandar, at the time of Kuņa Pandya of Madura, about 10th century A.D.--8000 learned Jains put themselves on the impaling stakes.
P. 67. Rämänuja's success in converting the King of Mysore from Jainism to Vaişņavism.