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ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
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The existence of this type acquires value for Telugu Literary History when it is observed that Nannaya in the Telugu Mahābhārata seems to work out:its method into his Champu Bhārata as suggested by the follbwing verses :--Adiparva, First Asvasa, 104-107 (verses).
(N.B.—The Sataka method is herein used for panegyric.)
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Telugu literature.
Jaina Kar.. In the wake of the Chalukya conquest of influences the Vengi Kingdom and consequent on the shaped early establishment of the E. Chalukya dynasty in
Vengi, there must have taken place a considerable migration of a Canarese-Maharatta population of the governing' and 'co-operative' type, the members of which must have brought with them into the Andhra Kingdom, their traditional love of Karnāta literature and possibly, of Jaina culture. It is, at any rate, a significant fact that two of “ the three-yems” of Karnāta poetry, viz., Pampa and Ponna, were pandit poets of the Vengi mandala, and that both of them flourished before Nannayabhatta the earliest known poet of the Andhra mandala. The celebrity which these authors attained in their time and the fact of their having belonged to “ the governing and co-operative class” in the country is further of interest as indicating one of the important influences under which the literary movement was developing in the Vengi mandala before Nannaya's time.
