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Paper presented at the 29th Session of the All India Oriental Conference, held at Poona in Junc, 1978 and Published in thc Journal of Karnatak University (Hum.) Vol.xxii, 1978. (i) Inscriptions very well preserve the heritage of the language of a people. (ii) Such literary works are the Vaddaradhane, thc Cāvundarāya Purana, the Adipurana etc., (iii) For details on this point vide the introductory part of my paper, Influence of Middle Indo-Aryan Literature on Kannada Literature, Proceedings of the Seminar on Prakrit Studies, Ahmedabad, 1973. E.C. Vol. II, Bangalore 1923. General Editor, Dr.H.M.Nayak, Director, Institute of Kannada Studies University of Mysore, 1973. For further details, vide Introduction 10 E.C.Vol. II (Mysore Edition). Edited by PL.R.S.Panchamukhi, Dharwad, 1941. A number of early Prakrit inscriptions in Karnataka have not come down to us; and so also the Kannada ones. The Jainas being the earliest cultivators of the Kannada language for literary purpose, there could, naturally, have been several Kannada inscriptions during the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., i.e, prior to the Halmidi inscription (450 A.D.). Sri Santisagara Granthamala No.13, Sholapur, 1935. vrata-samapri-karya : the rite of concluding a vow.
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