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which was warmly supported by the Chola dynasty. King Sundara is alleged to have displayed even more than the proverbial zeal of a convert, and to have persecuted his late exreligionists, who refused to apostalize, with the most savage cruelty, inflicting on no less than eight thousand innocent persons a horrible death by impalement.
NOTE NO. 53
Please see the following remarks of Dr. Johannes Hertel post.
"They (the Jains) not only promoted their religion, which taught their countrymen a pitiful behaviour towards man and animals."
NOTE No. 54
"This influence of the laity has become in course of time, of great importance to Indian Art, and India is indebted to it for a number of its most beautiful architectural monuments, such as the splendid temples of Abu, Girnar and Satrunjaya in Gujarat.'
P. 19 The Indian Sect of the Jains.
Ft. Note. The persecution is described in the 62nd and 63rd Tiruvallia dal (Wilson, Mackenzee Mss. 2nd ed., Calcutta, 1828, p. 41). The Story is repcated in Rodriguez (the Hindu Panthion, Madras, 1841-5), illustrated by a plate depicting the horrid tortures of the victims; also by Gribble in Calc. Rev 1875, p. 70; and by Elliot, coins of Southern India (1885), p. 126, The Pandya King is named Nedumaran in the Piriyapurana (Ind. Ant., XXII, 63). P. 45455 Vincent A. Smith's "The Early History of India" 3rd Edn.
