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INTRODUCTION.
This monograph on "Andhra-Karnāta Jainism” which forms the second part of the present volume of “ Studies in South Indiun Jainism” is the result of a vacation study undertaken in the summer recess of 1921 at the instance of the Trustee of the Vizianagram Raj and the Principal of the Maharajah's College.
It seeks to trace the influence of Jainism in the Andhra and Karnāta districts of the Madras Presidency. The traces of this influence are very largely obscured by the latterday Renaissance of Puranic Hinduism and afford an opportunity for extended exploration. This is the first attempt, so far as I know, to give any systematic account of them and none can be more conscious than myself of the want of more adequate information on the subject. In these circumstances, these studies cannot claim more value than can be given to the barest outlines of a súbject which, for cultural reasons, demands more than a passing interest.
These studies serve to throw some lighthowever faint it may be on the history of the Andhra Country from the Fall of the Satavahanas to the Rise 'of the Chalukyas. The views elaborated are my own, first formulated while working as a Reader in Dravidian Philology in the University of Madras (1914-1917); and I believe, the materials on which they are based are presented now for the first time in an ordered sequence.
