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SECTION 1
Bibliographies, Catalogues, & Guide Books
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CHITTY, SIMON CASIE. A Catalogue of Books in the Tamil Language with the names of the authors, the subjects and the dates, as far as they can be ascertained. (JCBRAS, 1849, pp. 53-73).
P. 59. Nannul, a grammar written by a Jain ascetic, named Pavanandi, and inscribed to the king Seyakanga, who is conjectured to have reigned at Madura about 800 years ago.
P. 54. Karigai, a treatise on versification, by a Jain ascetic named Amrita Sāgara.
P. 58. Śūlamani Nighantu, a vocabulary written by Vira Man. dala, a Jain king. Neither the name of his kingdom nor the chronology of his reign is known.
P. 63. Chintāmaņi, a poem in 10 cantos. The name of its author is not mentioned but described as a Jain sage.
2 MURDOCH, JOHN. Classified Catalogue of Tamil Printed Books, etc. Madras, 1865.
Pp. xxii-xxiii. Oldest Tamil works now extant, are those which are written, or claimed to have been written, by the Jains, or which date from the era of the literary activity of the Jain sect.
Jains of the old Pandya country animated by a national and antiBrāhmaṇical feeling of peculiar strength.
