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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cālukya monarchs and their subjects record the construction of basadis and temples and register the gift of lands and money for their maintenance. Jainism never a state religion. Some of the Eastern Cālukya kings, especially, Amma II, Rājamahendra, showed considerable favour to the Jaina monks ; but none, with the possible exception of Vimalāditya, became a śrāvaka and embraced the faith of Mahāvīra.
P. 291. There were several Jain monastic establishments in the country. The Sarvaiokāśraya-Finālaya, and the Kaļakābharaṇa-finalaya, both built during the reign of Amma II (Ep. Ind. IX, p. 49) were the most important Jaina monasteries ; the former belonged to Addakali-gaccha of Valahärigana, and in the sattralaya attached to it arrangements were made for feeding the śramanas of all the four castes. The latter was built for the benefit of the monks of the Yapaniya Sangha to enable the members of the community to practise their vows undisturbed.
P. 293. Literature: Three great Kannada writers, Ponna, Pampa and Nāgavarma I, closely associated with Kamma-nadu which was situated in the neighbourhood of the Rastrakuta dominions ; the first composed his sāntipurāna at the instance of two brahman noblemen Ponnamayya and Mallapayya of Punganur and dedicated to their common guru, Jinendra Candra. The other two were laina brahmins born in Vengipalu ie, Vangipuram in the Narasaraopet Tälug in the present Guntur district. Pampa was the author of Vikramārjuna-Vijaya and Adipurāna, the greatest poems in the Kannada language. Nāgavarma composed Chandombudhi, a treatise on Kannada prosody, and Kadambari an adaptation in Kannada of Bana's great Sanskrit romance. Though these authors wrote in Kannada, their works, especially those of Pampa, exercised considerable influence over the early Telugu writers and stimulated them to essay poezical compositions in their own language.
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L. A. PHALTANE--Do. Ancient fain books shed any light on ancient history? (Jain Ant. Vol. XVI, No. II), Arrah, 1920. Pp. 41 to 45.
The Tatvārthasitra is the first work written in Sanskrit among the Jains in which all the Jain tenets nre enumerated in Sūtra form. The Naraka beings described in the Third chapter of the Tatvārtha sūtra are no others than the people who dwelt in lands which spread far and wide at one time in the Arabian Sea and which were known as sea lands or Narakas,
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