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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ashtafatı, a commentary on Samantabhadra's Aplamimansa by Akalanka (8th century A. D.), a celebrated Jain philosopher who defeated the Buddhists at Kanchi. The laler Sanskrit work Akalanka-charita gives an account of this disputation.
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9th century A. D. Utiara Puranı by Guņabhadra, is in Sanskrit written in 898 A. D. The Rāshtrakūta King Nripatunga (or Amoghavarsha, 815-877 A. D.) was an author in Kannada and Sanskrit; his Sanskrit work on Morality translated into Tibetan.
Kalayāna-Kāraka, a work on Medicine, by Ugrāditya (9th century A.D.), a contemporay of the Rashtrakūta King Nripatunga and of the Eastern Chālukya King Kali Vishņuvardhna V. This work gives a long discourse on the uselessness of flesh diet at the end.
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10th century A. D. : In the 10th century, translations from Sanskrit were prominent. Pampa gave his version of the Bhärata. Ponna (Ubhaya Kavi Chakravarti) wrote both in Sanskrit and Kannada. Ranna's Gadāyuddha, an episode from Bhärata. Nägavarma gave a version of Bāņa's Küdambari.
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11th century A. D.: Lingānušāsana, a work on Genders by the Jain author Harshavardhana, son of Srivardhana (11th century A. D.).
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12th century AD. : Dharmopades amrita, a Sanskrit work on sain philosophy by Padmanandi (12th century A. D.). The Jain guru Prabhachandra author of a celebrated work on logic. Abhinava Pampa wrote a Kannada version of the Rāmāyaṇa. Karna parya gave in his Neminātha Purāni, the stories of Krishna, the Pandavas and the Bhārata War. Jagaddala Somanätha translated Pujyapāda's Kalyāna-Kāraka, a treatise on medicine-entirely vegetarian treatment. Vritta Vilāsa rendered into Kannada Amitagati's Dharmaprakasike, which is a critical cxamination of Brahman religious beliefs. Nemichandra based his Kannada novel Lilavati on Subhandus romance Vasasvadatta.
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13th century A. D. : Sisumāyana (circa 1232) based his Anjanacharitre on Ravishena's Sanskrit Padmacharitra; Nagarāja (circa 1331 A. D.) based his Pun yāsava, on a Sanskrit work,
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