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SECTION VII Language and Literature and Educational Statistics.
457 The Tamil Language and Literature. (CR, XXV, Art. 7, 1855, pp. 158-196.
P. 183. Establishment of the amanál or Jain religion in Madura a little before the reign of Kuņa Pandyan.
P. 184. Kuņa Pandyan was a follower of the Samanal doctrines.
P. 186. Jains claim author of the Kural to be a Jain and adduce a verse in support of it, alleging that their god, the twenty-fourth tīrthankara, called Arugan, ascended up into heaven over a ladder of flowers.
P. 191. The author of the Chintamani, a Tamil poem, was a Jain.
P. 193. Manigavāsagara, the great champion of Saivism, overcame the Jains in the ninth century.
458 GRIBBLE, JAMES D. B. Tamil Poetry. (CR, Ix, art. 5, 1875, pp. 69-77).
P. 70. Tiruvallava, a Tamil poet, was a Jain. About his time Jainism grew in strength all over Madura, until it was professed by many learned doctors, and in the ninth century the king of Madura, Kuņa became a convert to Jainism.
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Gough, ARCHIBALD EDWARD. Papers relating to the collection and preservation of the records of ancient Sanskrit literature in India. Calcutta, 1878.
P. 21. Mode followed by the Jains in preserving their literary treasures.
