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Lewis Rice
Mysore. Revised edition. 2 Volumes.-Westminster, 1897.
Volume I.
Pages. 220. Statistic of the Jains in the province of Mysore, according to the
census of 1891 : 13,278, may be 0.27% of the total population. 242. The Jaina priests belong especially to the Digambara community
and are dressed in yellow robe, whence their name of Pitāmbaras.
244. The Svetämbaras count few representatives in Mysore, the
Digambaras are much more numerous.
247. The Jains are met especially in the District of Shimoga. 287-288. Chandragupta, disciple of Bhadrabähu. The latter after having
left Ujjain in anticipation of a famine, died at Sravana Begoļa. Evidences of the emigration of the Jains from the north towards
the south. 332. Bijjala, prince of the Kalacuri dynasty, professed the Jaina creed. 346-347. Bukka Ist, prince of Vijayanagara, pacified in 1368 a dispute bet
ween the Vishnuites and the Jains. 460-465. The Jainism in Mysore.
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490. In the first centuries of the Christian era, some Jain scholars wrote
in Canara
494. The Jaina literature in Canara. It is flourishing upto the 12th
century, then it becomes extinct. After the 16th century, it manifests itself again specially through the Campükāvyas, or poems of
varied meters and mixed with prose. . 496-502. Sketch of the history of the Canara literature ; the principal Jaina
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