Book Title: Studies in South Indian Jainism
Author(s): M S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
Publisher: M S Ramaswami Ayyangar

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________________ 4. ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. " off (?) an image of Adi-Jina. (A passage in the Udayagiri, inscription of Kharavēla seems to suggest that Kharavēla “ made the king of Magadha sbow down at the feet of the highest brought away by Nanda Raja." ? (Cf. ato show పయతి నందరాజనీతస అగజినస.) Jarl Carpenter, Ph.D., Upsala, says, “ The agra-Jina may be Mahāvīra or Rishabha, bút so much seems clear, that a Nanda king had taken away an idol of Jina during a raid into Kalinga, possibly about sixty years after the death of Mahāvīra.” It is not clear whether "Anitasa" in the text can be rendered as “ carried away” or “ brought ”; if the latter rendering be accepted, it would make Nanda Raja himself a ruler of Kalinga, perhaps a predecessor of Klaravēla. A Nanda Raja, no doubt seems to have ruled in Kalinga, for there are, for instance, villages in the populous parts of Ganjam, named after a Nanda Raja. Of such names may be mentioned :-Nandagām (Berhampore Taluq), Nandarājapuram (Ichhapur Taluq). This does not, however, affect adversely the argument of the antiquity of Kalinga Jainism. On the other hand, it takes us 'further a step back of the times of Kharavēla and makes it definitely pre-Mauryan. . While the Chandragupta of the Bhadrabāhu tradition is acknowledged to have been a Brahmanist before his conversion by Bhadrabāhu, an additional motive for his revolt against A version (Telugu) of Markan- the descendants of a Nanda deyapuranam makes the four famous Raja of Kalinga. Kobatriya olans of the Andhra dēca i

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