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JAINISM IN LITERARY TRADITION. 129
Pampa alluding to a similar thing in Adi Purana has reference in II. 24 to, Paramandalikar' and ` Kappam.'
( Describing the gifts, presented to. Yudhistira at the Rajasuya by various princes, Nannaya, says :
“Mada matanga turanga kancana lasan manikya ganikya sampadal olim goni tecci yicci mudam oppam gancisevincir ...... .... " II. i. 18.
I have identified this phrase 'manikya ganikya' in Pampa's Adi Purana XVI. 8. .
(g) Nannaya describes Rāja Rāja as * Manumārga' I. ij. I.
Pampa uses a similar appellation in Adi Purana VII, 12 · Manumārga.'
Such similarities of phrasing (both in the A theory of panegyrical part of poetry and in the evolution of
the Telugu Kavyas proper or sasana kavyas and pra- literary sastis) betwern early Karnāta and early Telugu dia works suggest not only that they were an expression of Karnāta type of literary culture prevalent in the Andhra and Kalinga countries, but indicate the possibility of their having developed largely under Karnāta influence in the Andhra country most certainly and in the Kalinga most probably, a type of Kavya diction which has left to this day a permanent influence on the growth of the Telugu literary dialect. This is my indication of the line of study of the early history of the Telugu literary dialect as represented by Nannaya. Prof. Hopkins has' by a
dialect.
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