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land of pilgrimage, consecrated by some of the holiest traditions and tenderest memories of their faith. This is the holy spot sacred to the Munisvara Gommata whom tradition represents to have been the younger brother of Bharata, the eponymous Emperor of Bhiratavarsha. The land of Mysore therefore symbolises Gommata's spiritual Empire as Bharatavarsha stands for the Empire of his brother Bharata. But Jainism not only found a second birthplace and home Mysore, Jainism repaid the debt. For Jainism if it did not create our Kannada literature, inspired some of the noblest master-pieces of that literature in its early history; and Jaina learned men have ever since continued to render signal service to it."
