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Pp. 287-291. Rāsțrakūtas, the patrons of the Jains--conflict with the Jains began with the Saivas of the days of Sambandar and Appar --General persecutions of the Jains-Persecution of the Bauddhas under a king named Himasītala at the instance of a Jain Achārya Akalanka-Rămănuja and persecution of the Jains-Vişnuvardhana and Jainism-Southern Māharaļța country and Mysore, chief centres of Jainism-The Cholas and destruction of Jain monasteries and temples-- The Chalukyas, the Hoysalas and the progress of Jainism.
P. 312. The Jains, a flourishing community in the Tuļunād, the country between the Western Ghauts and Sea-Irugappa, a general of Harihara II, a Jain-Composition of Nānārtharainamālā at his instance -His credit in erecting the Jain temple by name Gaņigitti.
P. 315. The Vaişņava holy place Tirunārāyaṇapuram known among the Jains as Vardhamanapuram.
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SARASVATI, A. RANGASWAMY. The Founder of the Vikrama Era. (QJMS, xiii, 1923, pp. 506-510.).
P. 507. Several reference in Jain literature to a Vikramaditya of Ujjain who founded the Samvat era.
P. 508. Text and translation of some Prakrit gathas quoted in a very large number of Jain commentaries and chronological works ; these give the adjustment between the eras of Vira and Vikrama and form the basis of the earlier Jain chronology.
P. 509. References in ancient Jain literature that a king of Ujjain called Vikramāditya founded the era after his name after the expiry of 470 years after the Jain tirthankara Mahāvīra's nirvāņa.
P. 509. Prabhāvakacharita or the lives of Jain saints by Pradyumna sūri, gives an account of the life of the Jain Achārya Kālaka sūri and of the politics of India at the period when Vikrama is said to have founded the Samvat era, and thus proves beyond all doubt that there was a Vikramaditya at 56 B.C. ruling over Ujjain. It makes Nāgārjuna, the famous Buddha Scholiast and founder of the Mahāyāna, a Jain. The account it gives of king Krişna of Mánakheta seems merely
