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J. VINSON-Manuel de la langue tamoule. Paris, 1903.
INTRODUCTION
P. XXXIX. According to a Jaina work, the Digambaradarśāna, an association of Digambara Jains must have been founded at Madura in Samvat 526, may be 470 A.D. These are probably some Jains who, from the North, have brought the writing in the Tamoul country, in the first centuries of the Christian era.
P. XL and XLIII-XLIV. Evolution of the Tamoul literature :
I. Period of tentative procedure, then dogmatic treatises composed alter
Ferodoma natively by the Jains and the Sivaites. It is the period of the Kural and of the
1 Naladiyār.
dominates : It is the age of the epic
II. Period during which the Jainism poems.
III. Period in which the Śivaism commence to attack vehemently the Jainism, period of the Sindāmaņi.
IV. The Sivaism has become predominantly ; period of the great Sivaite purāṇas and of the Sūlāmani.
V. Progress of the Vişnuism ; adaptation of the Sanskrit literature.
The second and the third periods are the most important. They extend from about the 10th to the 14th century.
Quotations from the Naladiyar, Sindanamani and Sūļamani. (See the index, p. 237).
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Z. WICKREMASINGHE-Index of all the Prakrit Words occurring in Pischel's 'Grammatic der Prakrit-Sprachen'. Bombay, 1905 sqq.
* This index has been published in Appendix to the 'Indian Antiquary' vol. XXXIV and subsequent volume.
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