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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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P. 201 n.1. In three inscriptions of the Barahar hill caves, there is dedected an attempt to chisel away the word Ajwvikeh Dr. A. BANERJI Sastri fastens the mischief on Khāravela, a Jain (Sec. HULTZSCH, Corpus, p. XXVIII, JBORS, XII, Pp. 49-52; 58-62).
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K. A. Nilakanta SASTRI- A History of South India. Madras, 1955.
P. 79. King Nanda and the statue of Kalinga Jina.
Pp. 80-81. Jain accounts of the end of Chandragupta Maurya.
P. 190. Kālaka being insulted by king Gard habhilla of Ujjain, persuaded the Sakas to invade Ujjain. Gardabhilla's son Vikramaditya founded an era in 57 B.C.
P. 111. Inscription of Khäravela contains the only early epigraphic reference to the kingdom of the Tamil country after to Asoka inscriptions; Tamiradeśsanghātam -confederacy of Tamil states.
P. 112. Silappadikaram cannot he placed earlier than the fifth century.
P. 346. Dhananjaya (1150) a Digambara Jaina of Karnataka, compiled Namamala, a lexicon of synonyms.
P. 348. Tolkappiyam-close of A.D. 100-300.
Pp. 355-56. Silappadikaram an unsurpassed gem and unique in the whole range of Tamil literature its theme.
P. 356. Perun gadai (Sanskrit Brihat-Katha) of Kongu-Velir a great poem by a lain author, of which only parts are available--tells of the adventures of Naravānadatta, the son of the celebrated Udayana of Ujjain; as a narrative poem the Perungadai has exceptional merits; Valaiyāpati and Kundalakesi are the two other Taina Kavyas in Tamil which have been lost but were once counted among the five great Kāuyas. The commentary on the Tapparungalam, a Jain grammar, cites many works on grammar by Jaina authors.
P. 358. Jivaķacintamani of the Jaina ascetic and poet Tiruttakkadevar composed early in the tenth century—the story. The great poem is said to have been the author's answer to a challenge that while Jaina writers were admittedly distinguished in the field of religious literature, they could make no contribution to the literature of love. The author is thought to have been a Chola prince by birth,
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