Jain Bibliography

Author(s): Chhotelal Jain
Publisher: Bharti Jain Parisad

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Extent of the Jain period probably from the 8th or 9th century A.D. to the 12th or 13th.
Jains finally expelled from the Pandya country in the reign of Sundar 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 Chintamani 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 Chintamani.
P. lxxxiii. Amirtasakarar, a Jain, was a Sanskrit as well as a Tamil scholar. He wrote Karikai, a grammar on tamil verse.
Appavaiyar, author of Tanḍava Malai, said to have been a Jain. Appar, though born of Saiva parents, entered a Jain monastery -Later returned to Saivism again-Lived about the 10th century A.D.
P. lxxxix. Mandala Purudar, a Jain ascetic, said to have lived in the time of Rājā Kriṣṇa Rayar who reigned at Vijaynagar in the beginning of the 16th century-wrote the poetic lexicon Churămani Nikāṇḍa.
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 Himaśītala, the Buddhist king of Conjeveram, about 800 A.D.-Jains overcome by the Saivas, headed by Sambandar, at the time of Kuna Pandya of Madura, about 10th century A.D.---8000 learned Jains put themselves on the impaling stakes.
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