Book Title: Studies in South Indian Jainism
Author(s): M S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
Publisher: M S Ramaswami Ayyangar

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________________ JAINISM IN-LITERARY TRADITION. 131 Among others, the work treats of మహి వేగపవన వేగోత్పత్తి, విష్ణు దేవ తా పరీకు, సర్వదేవతా పరీక్ష, బ్రహ్మానజగత్కర్తృత్వవిష్ణువిన పాలవళ స్వససామళ్యణ నిరూ షణం, ఈశ్వరాది సకల దేవసురార్జునరళ స్త్రసామథ్యణ పరీక్ష, శ్రీ బ్రహ్మ విష్ణుమ హేశ్వర దేన తాపరీకు, కొరవ, భగీరధనభిమన్యుమింద్రజితు శ్రీ వేదవ్యాసకణణాతృణబిందువి నుత్పత్తి, రావణకులోత్పత్తి, వాలిసుగ్రీవన, వినాయగజనగ భేద, త్రిషష్టిశలా కాపురుష చక్రమం, రామలక్ష్మీగర tobooso. . The stories of Rāmāyana and Mahābhārata are more particularly handled as Kavyas in Pampa Bhārata and Pampa Rāmāyana. The value of the attempt, therein, of rehandling classical material consists in the manifest motive of treating them mostly as Kshatriya heroic tales enlivened by Jaina devotion. The heroic element predominates the religious and cultural aspects. • Ä word may be said in conclusion about the makers the makers of all this varied literature. They are, first the achāryas of the various mathas established in South India and their disciples and their disciples' disciples, and secondly, the officers of warrior chieftains who established kingdoms with the help of these achāryas and used their influence for the protection and spread of Jaina Dharma. The Chalukyas and Rāshtrakūtas must be mentioned as the foremost dynasties in Andhra Karnāta dēsas under whom Jaina.architecture and literature acquired wide reputation and excellence. Jaina literature in turn is full of the praises of these soyereigns. Panegyrical chronicles, after the Jaina fashion, of Jaina lite. rature.

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