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JAINISM IN LNERARY TRADITION. 103 have become literary by the time at which they were imported into or to have been quoted from literary works in which they can now be identifier or the authenticity of which can now be established beyond doubt. A few such Telugu or Andhra-Karnāta (for they are common to both these languages) words have been identified hy ime in Gathu Sapta Sati, a collection of verses in an old Maharashtri dialect, the compilation of which is attributed to Hala, a prince who Belongs to the line of Satavahana (Andhra) kings who ruled over a vast empire (in second . century B.C.) including the later Andhra and Karnāta kingdoms. At about the same time, the Andhras (among whom I include the Karnātas also, for the latter were not distinguished as such) had developed special forms of dress and ornamentation which marked them out from • other communities of South India and began to distinguish members of other South Indian communities, at least the Tamils, as Dravidas. Evidence of these facts has been traced by me on the sculptures and in the inscriptions on the Amaravati and Jaggayapeta Stupas. As is evident from a comparison of word-forms from these inscriptions and Gatha Sapta Sati with forms of Tadbhava. words in Acca Telugu Nighantus, the Telugu and Karnāta peoples were in the early centuries of the Christian era under the influence of Prakrit and Pali Literature. Small wonder, then, that similar forms of Tadbhavas had filtered down into the later
