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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1875 P. 271. Madura described in Maruthanar's Madurai Kāñci (one of the 10 Patthupātu idylls : Numerous references to the Jains shrines of the city.
P. 272. Jain influence in Tamilkam and Fourth Tamil Sangam. A great name is Vajranandi ; and Nāladiyār, one of the 18 didactic classics known as Pathinen Keel Kanakku was an important production of the 4th Tamil Sangam.
Pp. 273-74. The Jains contributed much to Tamil literature and their settlements in the Madura country lasted for nearly one hundred years.
The famous Kūn Pandya was a Jain ; he became a convert to Hinduism and his reign was the beginning of the end of Jain influence. Għānasambandar and Appar worsted the Jains in religious disputation. Kūn Pandya became a convert to Saivism and tradition says that 800 Jains were impaled on that occasion and that the annual festival conducted in Madura even today is connected with this gruesome act of persecution. The downfall of Jainism in South India is traced to this period.
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A. N. UPADHYE-Some of the latest Institutions and Journals and their work in the field of Prākrit studies etc. (A portion of the address, A. I. O, C, Hyderabad, 1941). Jain Ant. vol. VIII No. I ; Arrah ; 1942 ; Pp. 1-7).
The Deccan college post-graduate and research, Institute, Poona, its Bulletin. Vira Sevā Mandira of sarsava (Saharanpur), its Hindi monthly Anekānta ; the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, its serial publications ; the Jaina Vidya Bhavan at Lahore ; the Jaina Research Society, Delhi.
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Nalina Vilocana Sarma : Restraint on important factor in Ancient Indian Penology. (Jaina Ant. Vol. IX ; No. I ; Arrah, 1943; Pp. 41-45).
The gradual and consistent development of the ideas of treating crimes and their perpetrators rationally from the earliest Dharma sūtra and Dharma-śāstra works along with the European penology. The essentially humanitarian systems professed by the Buddhists and the Jainas believe in Ahiṁsā and Forgiveness in the extreme. Buddhist and Jaina rulers, nevertheless, could not be expected to do away with punishment in day to day administration,
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