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JAINABIBLIOGRAPHY
1873
The Jain are said to have conducted a whole-sale persecution of the Bauddhas under a king Himasitala at the instance of Akalanka. Similar story of Rāmānuja having persecuted the Jainas by getting them ground in oil-mills by Vishnuvardhana, the Hoysala- but it is known that the chief queen of Vishnuvardhana died a Jain (Ancient India, IX). His commander-in-chief also died a Jain under him, and his son succeeded in the same persuasion. The tutor for his (king's) son was a most respected Jain Achārya ; therefore, these stories can hardly be regarded as historical. But religious riots and excesses by parties of people always existed.
The Rāshtrakūtas were great patrons of the Jains, and in their days Jainism did its best work in literature in the Southern Mahratta country and Mys re; even now those regions are the great Jain centres and Jainism flourished there in the age of the great Cholas. Jainism continued to flourish under the Chālukyas and the Hoysalas and even in the age of Vijayanagar.
The Saiva Adiyārs and Vaishṇava Āļvārs had to carry on active propaganda against Buddhism and Jainism, to overcome these religions which had a large popular clientele. Both Kumārila Bhatta and Sankarāchāıya set themselves to the task of controverting the Jains and Buddhists and also some others.
Pp. 298-99. Vijayanagar stood out for all that was worth preserving in Hindu religion and culture, irrespective of the multifarious minor differences that went to constitute the Hinduism of those days as they do that of these days and providing, for further development of these. It was a comprehensive movement to take into its fuld all forms of the Hindu faith, including in it to a great extent even the prevalent form of Jainism of the locality.
P. 312. The Jains were a flourishing community in the Tulunād, the country between the western Ghāts and the sea. Irugappa, a trusted general of Harihara II, was a Jain, at whose instance the lesciographical work Nanārtha-ratnamala was composed; he erected a Jajn temple in Vijayanagar, popularly known as Ganigiiz temple (the oil-woman's temple).
Pp. 314-315. During the Vijayanagar rule Buddhism and Jainism flourished side by side with Brāhmanism; there were controversies but these were under the control of the civil authorities for the time being. According to Rāmānuja inscription, the Vaishnava holy place Tirunārāyanapuram was known among the Jainas as Vardhamānapuram. The Vaishnavas ill-treated the Jains, who carried a complaint to Bukka, who conducted an enquiry and committed the charge of seeing that the Jains were not molested by the Vaishnavas, to one of the Vahạisava Acharyas.
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