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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Deogarh fort contains specimens of different alphabets mostly Dravi. dian. Amrita-sāgara, a Jain Tamil poet who flourished before the lith cent. states in his Yāpparungalakkārigai, a work of prosody, that there existed in the Kannada language a work on prosody.
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GUNE, P. D. Pradyota, Udayana and Śreņika-A Jain Legend. (ABI, ii, 1920-21, pp. 1-21).
The author traces the history of Pradyota, Udayana and Śreņika from Jain legendary sources.
495 WOOLNER, ALFRED C. Introduction to Prakrit. (JRAS, 1921, pp. 633-5).
The article is a review of the work-Introduction to Prakrit by A. C. Woolner-The work contains specimens of Jain Mahārāștrī.
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KINGSBURY, F. and G. E. PHILIPS. Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints. Calcutta, 1921.
Pp. 10-11. Influence of the Saiva pilgrim poet Sambandar in conquering in argument a vast multitude of Jains in the presence of the king of Madura-Conversion of the king to śaivism-Impalement of eight thousand stubborn Jains with the consent of Sambandar.
P. 27. Sambandar's poems contain frequent denunciations of Buddhism or Jainism proving that the poems were composed at a time when the struggle between Hinduism and these other religions was at its highest.
P. 33. Jains setting fire to Sambandar's house-His prayer for an attack of fever of the Pandyan king, then a Jain.
P. 59. Apparsvāmi, a Saiva, got sunk in the sea by the Jain per secutors, but he began to float on the surface on crying "Hail, Siva".
P. 61. Apparsvāmi when smitten with an inward disease for- sook Saivism and became a Jain.
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| SR No. | 011050 |
| Book Title | Jain Bibliography |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chhotelal Jain |
| Publisher | Bharti Jain Parisad |
| Publication Year | 1945 |
| Total Pages | 397 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 13 MB |