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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________________ 80' ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. movement of culture which the Kadambas and the Rāshtrakūtas used their political power to patronise and extend. Thus, through the rise and fall of the warrior clans in power and influence, the continuity of culture and civilisation goes on undisturbed along the lines of cultural affiliation and fusion. The formula which expresses Satavahana culture best is: “Siddham namah"; the formula that expresses Chalukya culture Best is “Om namah Sivāya Siddham Namah ” or “ Om namo Nārāyanāya.” Saivism and Narayanism are said to be particularly of South Indian origin, while Buddhism represented by "Siddham Namah " is Mauryan and North Indian. A word, in passing, about the Kadamba, toe early Kalachuria and Rāshtrakūta services to the progress of scholarship may be necessary to facilitate later the appreciation of the Chalukya contribution to the development of South Indian culture. II THE CULTURAL TRANSITION FROM THE SATAVA HANA TO THE CHALUKYA PERIOD. . It has been urged above that the Chalukyas consolidated their political power by a process of social and cultural fusion and the appeal to a new literary interest in which the local languages of their dominions came in for a larger recognition and patronage. This process of political consolidation they seem to have inherited

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