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JAINISM IN LITERARY TRADITION. 107 fashioning the literary dialects of both these languages on same or similar models. Such influence of Cancrese taste in literaryo matters has, I think, been only. accelerated by the conquest of the Vengi kingdom by the Chalukyis, for about 5th century A.D., a Jaina scholar and grammarian; Pūjya pāda, is said to have visiter! 'the Andhra mandala, evidently on a tour for patronage. This presupposes high cultivation of Kannada in the Andhra mandala at the date 'and also a regard for Jainism. It is not therefore extravagant to suppose that about that . period, Jainism had favour in the Andhra and Karnāta mandalas and Jaina Kamnāta literature was known in the Andhra mandala. From the ceptury following, for four centuries together, the Andhra mandala came under the influence of a Canarese dynasty of kings with their courtly retinue of Canarese officials, scholars, poets and generals but they found themselves at the head of a movement of Brahmanic revival which fought successfully against Jainism and Buddhism in the Telugu country with their own weapons, ---the establishment of seats of learning, the securing of royal patronage for the places of worship, the reinterpretation of old puranic materials derived from earlier Sanskrit literature, the development of literary types in the vernaculars. To such a movement of Brahmanic revival, with all the fully developed literary resources of early Jaina Karnāta literature at its service, I find reasons
