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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 359. Tolamoļi (a man of unsurpassed eloquence) whose Sulamani handles a Jaina puranic theme in very mellifluous verse and is counted among the five minor Kayas of Tamil literature, belongs to the tenth century.
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P. 363. Jasambodani of Devendra-munivar, a Jaina work, expounds in detail twelve modes of meditation. The work is replete with mythical stories and ancedotes and its metres resemble those employed in contemporary Tamil inscriptions.
P. 363. In the field of Tamil grammar, the Yapparungalam and Tapparungalakkarigai, two authoritative works on prosody, were composed by Amitasägara, a Jaina ascetic of the close of the tenth century. Both the works have lucid commentaries, that on the Karigai being by a certain Gunasägara, also a Jaina ascetic and probably a pupil of Amitasägara.
P. 364. The Neminadam of Guṇavirapandita is a short treatise treating of the orthographs and parts of speech of the Tamil language. The author, a Jaina of the time of Kulottunga III, named his work after Neminatha, the Tirthankara of South Mylapore. Another work of the same writer on prosody was Vaccanandimalai (the Garland of Vaccanandi), named after the author's guru; it is also known as Venbappaltiyal. The Nannul (The Good Book) was the work of Pavanandi, another Jaina grammarian, patronized by a Ganga feudatory of Kulottunga III. By its simplicity and terseness, it has practically displaced all other books as the beginner's hand-book of Tamil grammar. The Purapporal-venba-malai of Aiyanaridanar, another Jaina writer, defines the conventions governing the turais (situations) of puram and illustrates each turai by a venbā it is said to be based on an early work called Pannirupadalam.
P 365. Šiva-Nana-Sittiyar (a work on Saivism) of Aranandi contains critical discussion of rival systems including two schools of Jainism.
P. 374. The period 1200-1650: The commentaries of Mayilainathar on Nannul and of Perundevanar on Virasüliyam, both works of grammar, were among the carliest. Then came the glors of Adiyarkkunallar on Silappadikaram; a very learned and elo quent commentary remarkable for its extensive and instructive citations from numerous old works now lost.
P 375. In lexicography, the most popular lexcion Nigaṇndu-cudamani was composed by a Jaina author by name Mandalapurusha most probably in the reign of Krishnadeva Raya of Vijayanagar.
P 375. Kannada: Nripatunga's Kazirajamärga (850), the earliest extant work on rhetoric in Kannada; according to this work Kannada country is said to have extended from the Kaveri to the Godavari, and thus included much territory in the
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