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earliest work of the Jains in the Tamilnad, présenting a clear picture of their religious and social customs and manners.
P. 210. In the writings of the Jains and the later sectarian poets we meet with a prose style in which the admixture of Skr. expressions was veay large.
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M. BLOOMFIELD-The Salibhadra Charita, a story of conversion to Jaina Monkhood. (JAOS, xliii, Pp. 257-316.).
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Maurice BLOOMFIELD-On Recurring Psychic Motifs in Hindu Fiction and the Laugh and Cry Motif. (JAOS, xxxvi, Pp. 54-89).
Pp. 54-55. Jains' performances of the type of Devendra's stories and the commentaries (chürṇi and (tka) to the Avasyaka literature.
Comment on the critical habits of the charitas or prbandhas of the Jains: They illustrate conspicuously the Hindu inability to discriminate between fact and fancyThey weave into their narrative once more the whole apparatus of Hindu fictionHemachandra's Trişaştikalaka-puruşa Charita gives an idea of the extent of this type of literature-Not very different and scarcely less numerous are the Jain writings called Katha (Kaha), or Kathanaka-They moralize more directly and obviously (dhammakaha), but they are intimately connected with the traditional names of saints, emperors and kings.
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Franklin EDGERTON-Presidential Address to the B. C. I.; in Poona. (ABORI Vol. VIII; 1927).
P. 225. A Jain Authority Lakshmivallabha's commentary on the Uttarajjhayan Sutta, p. 1099 and so on.
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Chakravarty, CHINTABARN-Origin and Development of Dütakavya (I. H. Q. Vol. III, 1927).
Jain Education International
P. 277. Mention of Jain Meghadata of Merutunga of Ancalagaccha-15th century AD. dealing with the story of Neminatha the 22nd Tirthankara,
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