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JUNA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1279
P. 39n. For references to the Jains in Sambandar's hymns see Balasubramania Mudaliyar's Saiva Siddhānta Mahasamajam edition of Sambandar's Devaram (1937) Pp. 60-66.
P. 49. Jñānasambandar upheld the cause of saivisms not only against the Jainas of the Pandyan country, but as well against the Buddhists of the Coļa-räjya.
1360
V. R. Ramachandra DIKSHITAR.--Presidential Address: Ancient India. (Ind. Hist. Cong. 9th Sess. Annamalainagar, 1945).
P. 176. The efforts of the Tamil saints (Appar, Sambandar, Manikkavasagar, Sankara etc.) led to the final disappearance of Buddhism in the south and for the matter of that in the Indian Horizon. But in the case of Jainism though decay set in, it died hard. Some of the fine monuments of the Jainas still preserved e.g., Indra Sabhā and Jayamalla Sabhä at Ellora, under the Chālukya's patronage, the splendid monolithic temple at Kalugamalai in the Pandyan kingdom. The inscriptions at Lakkundi mention the name of Dāna Chintamani Attiyabbe, a daughter of Mallapa or Mallapayya, the general of Taila II; she flooded the Western Chalukya territory with 1,500 Jain temples; the Ajita Purāna in Kannada of Ranna was composed at her instance.
P. 79. With the Kalachuri usurpation of the province of Telingana (1162-82) emerged the Vira Saivism; its leader was Basava, the minister of Bijjala, the usurper; it started as a fanatic sect aiming at the destruction of the Jains.
Tamil but also in Kan
P. 80. The Jains produced literature not only in nada.
P. 82. The Karnata Jains took part in the northern expedition of the Chālukyas of Kalyāni during the reign of Vigrahapāla III.
1361
Anil Chandra BANERJEE-Sidelights on the History of Medieval Mewar. (Ind. Hist. Cong. 9th Sess. Annamalainagar, 1945).
P. 147. An inscription of Naravāhana (v.s. 1028, A.D.971) in the temple of Natha near Udaipur describes the guru of the composer of the inscription as the “medicine for the disease of the Syädväd (Jainism), implying hostility to Jainism.
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