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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2327 P. D. GUNE--Pradyota, Udayana and Śreņika-A Jain Legend. (ABI, ii, 1920-21, Pp. 1-21).
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The author traces the history of Pradyota, Udayana and Srenika from legendary sources.
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F. KINGSBURY and G. E. PHILIPS—Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints. Calcutta, 1921.
Pp. 10-11. Influence of the Saiva pilgrim poet Sambandar in conquering in argument a vast multitude of Jains in the presence of the king of Mandura. Conversion of the king to Saivism-Impalement of eight thousand stubborn Jains with the consent of Sambandar.
P. 27. Sambandar's poems contain frequent denunciations of Buddhism or Jainism proving that the poems were composed at a time when the struggle between Hinduism and these other religions was at its highest.
P. 33. Jains setting fire to Sambandar's house-His prayer for an attack of fever of the Pāndyan king, then a Jain.
P. 59. Apparsvāmi, a Saiva, got sunk in the sea by the Jain persecutors, but he began to float on the surface on crying ‘Hail, Siva'.
P. 61. Apparsvāmi when smitten with an inward disease forsook Saivism and became a Jain.
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Edward P. Rice- A History of Kanarese Literature. Second Edition. Calcutta, 1921.
Pp. 17-41. The Jain period to A.D. 1160. The Jain religion in the Kanarese country. Its dominance in the Kanarese country- Its introduction into South India - Principal tenets-The vow of sallekhana-Syādvāda-Decline. The Kavirājamārga (C. 850) and early writers, Stanzas from Kavirājamārga Jain writers from the Kavirājamārga to the Lingayet revival (1160). Illustrative extract from the Pampa Rāmāyana. Notę on the date of Samanta Bhadra and Pujyapāda,
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