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Paper presented at the Seminar in Parkrit Studies organized by the Shivaji University, Kolhapur, in May, 1968 and published in the Journal of Karnatak University (Hum.), Volume XII, 1968.
The Indian Sect of the Jainas, Eng. Tr. by Burgess, London 1903, p.22.
(i) Dr.P.B.Desai, on the strength of epigraphical evidence backed by literary traditions, proposes that Jainism commenced its southward journey as carly as 6th Cent.B.C.: Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs, Solapur, 1957, p.18. (ii) Shri K.P.Jain observes that South India had already followers of the Jaina Law before the great Jaina Migration of the Maurya period: The Antiquity of Jainism in South India, Indian Culture, Vol.IV, pp.512-516.
The earliest datable Kannada inscription, found at present, is that of Kakusthavarman at Halmidi of C.450 A.D. Sources of Karnatak History, Vol.I, by S.Shrikantha Shastri, Mysore Universisty 1940, Intro.p.xx.
Kavirājamārga, Bangalore 1898, verses 27-32.
History of Kannada Language, Mysore University, 1940, pp.65-66.
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S.B.345: Kavicarite, Revised edition, Bangalore 1961, p.47. 8. S.B.281: Kavicarite, p.48.
Medieval Jainism, Bombay 1938, p.102.
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