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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
century A D., they deal with the doctrine of Karman and the causes of bondage which tie down the soul to Saṁsāra.
P. 393. Jain religion and philosophy are conservative. Umasvāti composed (in c 200 A.D.) Tattvārthadhigamasutra. During this period (Vakatak-gupta) Jain philosophers for the first time began to offer rational explanations fur their religious dogmas and tenets. Siddhasena Divākara (5th century A.D) father of Jain logic, he wrote Sanmati-larka and Nyāyāvatāra.
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P. 467. Paintings in the cave temple Sittannavasal (Siddhanam Puddukkotai state executed in the time of Pallava Mahendra-varman.
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A. GHOSH-The Pottery of Ahichchhatra, District Barully, U.P. (Ancient India, No. I. Delhi, 1946).
P. 37. Ahichchhatra, the capital of the Kingdom of North Pāñchāla. The ruins of Ahichchhatra are situated about half a mile to the north-east of the village of Rämnagar which is even now known to the Jainas as Achchchhatra.
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H. G. RAWLINSON- A concise History of the Indian People, 1946.
Pp. 29-30. Jain and Buddhist teachings.
P. 79. Buddhism left India having signed a mark on the Buddhism whereas Jainism survived.
P. 91. Causes of Mohammadan success-Buddhism and Jainism by their doctrine of Ahimsa had made bulk of the people peace loving and unwarlike.
P. 101. Decline of Buddhism under Cālukya dynasty and replacement by Brahmanism and Jainism. Ganga dynasty of Mysore patronised the Jainas.
P. 104. Vira Saivas or lingayātas were founded by Vasava, a Brahmin minister of uprising Rāja named Bijjala as a revolt against Brahmin priesthood and heretical doctrines of Jainism. Another version is that Vijjala, a, Jain, persecuted Lingayatas and was assassinated. Lingāyatas reject Brahmanism and the authority of the Veda. Hoysalas were Jains. But their successor Vişnuvaradhana was a convert Vaişnavism by Rāmänuja.
P. 110. Jain migration to South in Mysore, about 309 B.C.
P. 117. Religious reformers Sankara and Rāmānuja overthrew the heretical sects of Jainism and Buddhism by their teaching.
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