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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA
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branches of this family in the Deccan, e.g., the Kadambas of Banavasi and the Kadambas of Goa. The significance of the early Kadambas whom the Chalukyas overpowered lies in their association with the later Satavahanas and their patronage of Jaina culture. Although these Kadambas describe themselves as Mānavyasa gotra Haritiputras and Swami Mahāsēna Padanudhyāyis", yet their leanings lay definitely towards Jainism. Their poets were Jains; their ministers were Jains; some of their personal name's were Jaina; the donees of their grants were Jain the type of literature as evidenced by the Goa copper-plates was of the Jaina Kavya kind. This they handed down to the Chalukyas. Thus, their conquerors became captives in turn to the scholarship and culture which the Kadambas promoted. Among the Goa Kadambas occur personal names in Kēsi; such words are familiar among the Chalukyas. Possibly there is some relationship between the Chalukyas who rose to power in W. Deccan and the Kadambas of Goa as there is traced between the Kalachuris and Rashtrakūtas. Any way the Chalukya inscriptions make it clear that they adopted the Kadamba style of family insignia.
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Scholarship.
It has already been pointed out how the Jaina Jaina Acharyas secured grants from kings for their foundations through the respect they inspired in them for their character and learning. Pujyapadaswami was one of such early Acharyas,
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