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Mahāvīra born in or about 599 B.C.-His spiritual career at the age of zo, gathered a considerable following monks, known as the Nirgranthas-They came to be known as Jains after Mahāvīra's death about 527 B.C.--Mahāvīra's followers visited Vaiśāli where the Lichchhavis used regularly to carry on discussions on high problems of life-The Jains said to have been valiant disputants-Illumination at Vaiśāli when Mahāvīra died, signifying the enlightenment of human souls under Mahāvira's teachings-Date of Mahavir's death.
P. 52. Vaisāli, according to Yuan Chwang, was inhabited by a large number of Jains, and by the Hindus and Buddhists.
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SASTRI, R. SHAM. Malnad Chiefs. History of Sagar. (QJMS, xii, 1922, pp. 45-57).
P. 47. Bhairava was a Jain king. After slaying him, Virabhadra carried off his wife Channammaji and added Garasoppa to his own territory.
P. 48. Subjugation of Ammaji, the queen of Sodi and the Jain king of Chandragutti, by Sivappanayaka, the famous systematiser in the valuation of land revenue.
317 AIYANGAR, S. KRISHNASWAMI. The origin and early history of the Pallavas of Kanchi. (Journal of Indian History, Oxford, Vol. ii. 1922, pp. 20-66).
P. 27. Tevāram hymner Appar, first a Jain and afterwards a Saiva.
Pp. 48-52. The Pallavas and the Gangas.
Pp. 55-60. The chronological datum in the Lokavibhāga, a Jain work composed in the fifth century in Cuddalore.
P. 61. Mahendra first a Jain-Converted to Saivism by the saint Appar.
Pp. 63 64. Influence of the Gupta culture,
