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to this Kalpa ve hear mention of 13 Jain Manus, and the Kula-Karas, and the pew of men that was being shaped under the direction of these Manus and Kulakaras in Bbogabhumi If the Bhumiya tripes inhabited the region of the Kula-Parvata mountains alluded to in the Saiva and Vaishnava Puranas, it will have to be admitted that the southern kingdora between the Vindhyas and Sinhala was one far advanced before the Sweta-varāha-Kalpa. In that case there are reasons to maintain that Košala, the home of the Rishabha and Bharata, Inshwākus would be identified as the southern kingdom and' not the porthem. Some western Scholars hold that Kosala, Josāla, is a øreDravidian nomenclature. The suffix"Ala” indicating place and country when applied to tribal names in the north, would be in accordance with the Sapskrit Sandhı; when applied to tribal nanies in the south would be in accordance with the Dravida-Ikannada-Swarasandhi. '
Northern :.: Neepa (Nepr) + Ala - Nepāla Savarna
Vanga (Banga) + Ala 'Bangāla' Deergh Pancha
Ala Pagchäla Sandhi! Southern -
'Kunta + Alan Kuntala : (not Kunt-āla, zats.)
Kera (Chera) + Ala - Kerala (not Kerala ) ¿ Sinha + Ala = Sahhala (not Sinhala)
Kosa + Ala , Kosala (not Kośāla).
The original Košalas of the Ikshwāku (seats) would thus belong to the Dakşhınālya countries. It can be traced from the Bhāgawata that Satyavrata Manu, the Dravideshwara was well known before the pauranic trio, Vaiyaswata, Manu and Ishwāku. The south was the land of Drāvidas, Pothalı of South Košala was the capital of Bhujabali. Three beautiful monusenta attesting the unique worldly renunciation of Bhujabali Gomateshwara stand in Karnātāka The Bhagwata speaks of Rishabhadeva as having attained nirvana to the south of this Karnatak. 1. & 1n the middle region of Kongu Vengada and South Karpatak (Kankata Karnataka) and Kutajadrı. But the Jain Agamas have it that Rishabha had his nirvana in the Kallāša. The Kailaša of the Saiva Agamas must be identical with this. The Nirvana of Rishabha may be associated with this spot. But there scem to have existed Arhat hings in South Karnatak anterior to the 'Bhăgavatapurana' who wanted to appropriate this honour to the south. That means the South had imbibed Jainism in the middle of the time of Nemi Pārswa. dātha. The Tain Agam, not only refers to the exodus of Neminātha to Pallaya, anticipating the destruction of Dwarikā, but to the Pandavas too baying established a kingdom in South Madura. These Pallavas and South Madura are pone else than the Tamil land contiguous to Karnātaka. At this
