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P. 117. Anaimalai is referred to in the Tewram by saint Tirunanasambandar as a stronghold of the Jaina and unstiges of this faith are even now found on a rock overhanging a cavern closely. A number of Jain figures on sculptures on the rock; one of these can be identified with the Jain teacher Ajjanandi from a lable below This cavern must have been occupied by the Jains prior to A. D. 770.
P. 119. At Sittannavasal in the Pudukkottai State** which was included in the Pandya country in the 9th century A. D. there is a rock-cut temple assigned to the time of the Pallava king Mahendravarman I, on account of its similarity and proximity to the rock-cut cave so far known in the Tamil country dedicated to the Jain faith and its patron might have been a Pandya king, not necessarily a Pallava king as has hitherto been supposed. The renovations and additions effected to this cave is noticed in an inscription (No. 368 of 1904) found in it of time of the Pandya king Śrivallabha with the title "Avanipasekharan" who may be identified with the king of the name and the predecessor of Varagunavarman of accession 862 A. D.
P. 120. Not far away from the unfinished rock-cut temple at Kalugumalai in the Ramanad district, are sculptured on the rock, figures of Tirthankaras, over a hundred in number, with labels in old Vatteluttu Characters explaining their identity. Considering the existence of these images in the vicinity and the absence of any linga in the central shrine, a Jaina origin is ascribed to the rock-cut temple. But the images of Dakshinamurti, Umämaheśvara, Vishnu, bulls, etc. found on the vimana prove that the cave is Hindu and not Jaina.
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P. 121. The Saiva Nayanmars and Vaishnava Alvars were moving from place to place (in the Pallava and Pandya territories) preaching Hinduism among the masses and condemning Jainism.
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MARSHALL, Sir John and Alfred FOUCHER. The Monuments of the Sanchi.
P. 22. (In the Bhabra Edict) Asoka laid stress on the Dharma not peculiar to Buddhism-it was the law of Piety promulgated by himself, and, though wholly consistent with the tenets of Buddhism, is hardly more distinctive of it than of Jainism or other Indian creeds.
Ajjanandi No. 67 of 1905; also in inscriptions at Aivarmalai (No. 692 of 1905); Uttampalaiyam (No. 729 of 1905); Vallimalai (Ep. Ind. Iv. P. 141); Alagarmalai (Ep. Rep. for 1909, P. 69), Kongrapuliyankulam (No. 54 of 1910); Kilakkudi (No. 64 of 1910) and Eruvadi (No. 603 of 1915).
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SHREENIVASAN-Cave temples in the Pudukkottai State "All India Oriental Conference; Hyderabad).
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