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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pp. 79-80. Nandas' Empire included Kalinga, Khäravelas' Hathi Gumpha inscription mentions a Nanda Raja; No clear evidence of the Mauryan emperors having undertaken wars of conquest in the South. Jain tradition of Bhadrabahu and Chandragupta Mauryan and migration to the South. Inscriptions of 600 A.D. and another of the fifth century confirm the tradition. Two inscriptions about A.D. 900 from the neighbourhood of Seringapatam and later inscriptions at Sravana Belgola of 12th and 15th centuries repeat this tradition. Brihatakathakosa of Harishena (A.D. 931) also mentions the story.
P. 83. Map of South India: 300 B.C.-A.D. 500.
P. 85. Häthigumphä inscription mentions a league of Tamil States.
P. 90. Satakarni I, may be the King mentioned in the Hathigumpha inscription of Khāravela, but it is more likely that it refers to Satakarni II, the Seventh Andhra King (172 B.C.)
For absolute chronology (Pallava). We depend on a Saka date in the Jain manuscript Lokavibhāga, a work on cosmology, finished on the equivalent of the 25th of August. 458 in the 22nd year of Simhavarman's reign. This date receives confirmation from the Ganga Charters.
Pp. 110-112. The inscription of Kharavela the only carly epigraphic reference to the Kingdoms of the Tamil country after the Asakan inscriptions. History of the Tamil land-Sangam literatute (the first three or four centuries A.D.)the earliest stratum of Tamil literature. The Tolkappiyam, a comprehensive work on Tamil Grammar also of the same age. Silappadikaram (fifth century) contains a historically correct synchronism.
Pp. 154-55 Amoghavarsha, also called Nripatunga, son of Govinda III (814)— author of Prainottara-ratnamalika, a Jain catichism.
P. 356. Epoch in the annals of Tamil literature (500-850). Preponderance of Jain writers. But the rising tide of Hindu reaction soon produced a great volume of popular devotional literature, which was set to music and ravished the hearts of the common folk. Notable developments occured in belles-letters, grammar and toxicography, but here the Jains and Buddhists continued to hold the palm.
P. 356. Didactical works-the best known of them all, and among the earlist, is the Kural of Tiruvalldvar, a comprehensive mannual of ethics, polity and love. The author was most probably a learned Jain divine 450-500 may be suggested as the best date for the Kural.
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