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ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM.
S. S. 944, i.e., A.D. 1022, and reigned till about 1062 or 1063 A.D. Thus, from the first quarter of the 7th-century, A.D. to the third quarter of the 11th century for about four centuries the Telugu country was under the benevolent sway of the Chalukyas, a line of rulers whom Fleet very appropriately calls a Canarese dynasty. According to both Andhra and Karnata accounts, these rulers were great patrons of literature. The kind of poetry cultivated under their patron-. age was of the courtly type and character, as ovidence of which may be mentioned Andhra and Karnata Kavyas and Inscriptions (Panegyric poetry). It has been gaid above that. back of 8th century A.D. in Karnāta and of 11th century A.D. in Andhra (Telugu), no Kavyaş in these languages have yet been discovered, although there are references in Kavyas referable. to these centuries and subsequent thereto, to the existence of literary tradition contemporaneous with or earlier than such works. But a few inscriptions back of 8th century A.D. in Kannada or Sanskrit and Kannada, and of 11th century A.D. in Telugu or Sanskrit and Telugu,. have been discovered and support the claims of the scholars of that day in Andhra and Karnāta countries to Ubhaya Bhasha Panditya (proficiency in both the languages). In the cultivation of panegyrical poetry by scholarly officers at court, we find the first parallelism between early Karnata and early Andhra literary efforts, a parallelism which has been, surely, at work in
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