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P. 57. Ardha-Magadhi or Half Magadhi, was the language in which Mahāvīra, the Jain apostle, preached, and it was used in the older Jain scriptures.
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"Casual". Languages of Southern India. (CR, cxvi, Art. 9., 1903, pp. 90-97).
P. 92. The Chintamani, an epic celebrating the exploits of a king named Jivaka, belongs to the early Jain period, which has been appropriately termed the Augustan age of Tamil literature.
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GRIERSON, G. A. Specimens of the Marathi Language. Calcutta, 1905. (Linguistic Survey of India, vii).
P. 7. One form of the Mahāraṣṭrī is the dialect of the non-canonical literature of the Svetambara Jains-This form of the language is usually called Jain Māhārāṣṭrī, and was perhaps based on the vernacular spoken in Surāṣṭra.
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GRIERSON, G. A. Munda and Dravidian Languages. Calcutta, 1906. (Linguistic Survey of India, iv).
P. 298. In the canon of the Svetāmbara Jains the form Damila is used for the Tamils. The forms Davila and Davida in the Prakrit literature of the Jains and of the Sanskrit plays seems to be a later stage, due to the Prakrit change of m to v.
P. 301. The beginning of Tamil literature proper seems to be due to the labours of the Jains-The romantic epic Chintāmaṇi is by an unknown Jain poet.
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KUPPUSWAMI SASTRI, T. S. The Age of the Tamil Jivakachintamani. (IA, xxxvi, 1907, pp. 285-288).
The works dealing with the story of Jīvaka are four in number, viz., (1) The Gadyachintamani by Vādībhasimha, (2) The Kṣatrachūḍāmani by the same author, (3) the Jivandharachampu by Harichandra, (4) the Tamil Jivakachintāmaņi,
