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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________________ 34 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. of Jainism mentioned in these records, the officers of the Epigraphist department have discovered traces of Jaina epigraphs taking us back to the times when Jainism played a pre dominant and significant part in South India. Find spots These epigraphs still await publication. At of Jaina Antiquities. Penukonda, Tādpatri, Kottasivarām, Pātasi varām, Amarapuram, Tammadahalli, Agali and Kotipi in the Anantapur District; at Nandapērur, Chippigiri, Kogali, Sogi, Bagali, Vijayanagar, Rayadurg in the Bellary District; at Dānavulapādu in Cuddapah District; at Amaravati in the Guntur District; at Mașulipatam, Kalachumbarru in the Krishna District; at Srīsailam in Kurnool District ; in the Madras Central Museum ; at Kanupartipādu, in the Nellore District; at Vallimalai in the North Arcot District ; at Basrur, Kötēsvara, Mulki, Mudabidire, Venur, Karkala, Kadaba, in the South Kanara District; at Bhögapuram, Lakkumavarapukota and Rāmathirtham in the Vizagapatam District, have been discovered Jaina epigraphs. Extermi. These, for one thing, indicate the large vogue that Jainism once, had in the Andhra and Karnāta mandalas. The epigraph from Srisailam is interesting in that it shows the kind of persecution to which Jainism in these lands had finally to succumb. The epigraph in question is indeed a Saiva ope. It records in Sanskrit, “on the right and left pillars of the eastern porch of the Mukhamantapa of the nation or toleration.

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