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AN INTERPRETATION OF JAIN ETHICS 31:
I am, myself, deeply indebted to several of the vener... able Svetambay Sadbus, especially late Shastrayisharada Jaînacharya Vijaya Dharma: Suri, and his successor, Acharya Vijayendra Suri; for having enabled me to make a long and profound study of Jainism at the source, and I wish to thank him and his group of learned Sadhu's most beartily, and to:give expression to the hope that a long life may be granted to him and his Sadhus, to his spirit of benevolence, and to the noble oulture of the Jaina's too.
TIRUMALAI INSCRIPTIONS.* On a piece of Rock on the top of the Tirumalai Hil. THIS inscription is dated in the 12th year of Ķo-parakesari
varman alias Udaiyar Rajendra-chola-deva. It opens with a long-list of the countries which the king had conquered. Among those we find “the seven and a half lakshas (of Revenue) irattapadi," which Rajendra chola took from Jayasimba. This conquest must have taken place between his 7th and 10th years, as another of Rajendrachola's inscriptions, which is dated in his 7th year does not mention it, while it occurs in some unpublished Tanjore inscriptions of the 10th year. The Jayasimba of the present inscription can be no other than the western Chalukya king Jayasimha III (about Saka 940 to about 964) who, according to the Miraj grant, “warred against the Chola," and who in another inscription, is called “The lion to the elephant Rajendra Chola." Consequently," the seven and a half lakshas of irattapadi " have to. be taken as a designation of the Chalukyan empire, which in
* South Indian inscriptions Edited by E. Holtzoh. Ph. D. written by A. Sikbaniani Sastri Hoadmap of Tirumalai. Tirmalai is ab anoient Jain village in the Polur Taluk of the North Arcot Dt., Madras Prosi.
use is an image of Lord Nominath, 18 ft. bigb carved out of a rock. At the foot of the hill there are three caves where Jaina saints used to live and an ancient Jain temple. In the Southern compound of the tom ple a pair of foot printa marks the spot of the Samada istban of Sri Vadibasimha.
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