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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. 122. Dharmamṛta, a Kannada Kavya, a Jain work by Nayasena gives interesting materials regarding Jainism and the antiquity of the Ikšākus in the Andhradesh. During the period of Väsupujya Yasodhara king of Ikṣāku reigned in Campapura, the capital of Anga. Then follows the account of the family of the king.
P. 125. Mahāvīra is said to have spent the retreat of caturmasya vrata in Campapur, Matsya purana contains an account of Campapur where Vasupujya, the 12th Tirthankara was born.
P. 126. The story of Dharmamṛla suggests that the first Jainism and later Buddhism gained hold in Andhradeśa. When the Andhras became Buddhists, the Jains out of spite would have given the appellation Andhaka to the land and people as well. The story of the book might have a connection with the account in the Aitareya Brahmana,
P. 174. The religious literature of the Jainas furnish a synchronism and help. us to determine the genealogical succession and to reconstruct the political history of the dynasty.
P. 565. Mahendra Varman I, a Pallava king was at first Jaina but he became later on a convert to the cult of Mahesvara.
P. 566. Some of the early Pallava kings were either Jainas or Buddhists.
P. 570. The Gangas of Punnata-Pannata country claimed descent in the Ränvayana golra and were Jainas by religion.
1343
S.K. DE-Early History of the Vaisnava Faith and Movement in Bengal. Calcutta, 1942.
P. 434. In Kavi Karnapuri's drama dealing with Caitanya's life, it is noted that Bhakti is superior to Viräga which is the central theme of the Buddhas, Jains and other systems of philosophy.
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G. C. GANGOLI-Some Evidences for the Early History of Indian Drama. (N.I.A. Vol. 5, 1942-43).
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Pp. 69-70. The itinerant picture Showmen was the precursor of the Dramatic form. The class of picture Showmen referred to under the term mankha in old
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