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________________ 68 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. votive offerings. The adoption of Haritiputra by the Kadambas as a family title indicates the way in whick later Buddhisin shaded off into Jainism. The people who availed theinselves and made capital out of such cultural fusion must originally have belonged to the later period of Satavahana decline, i.e., to the early Centuries of the Christian Era. From about this period comes the grant of Kadamba Jayavarma. A little later, we hear of a Vishnukundi-Kadamba-Satakarni from Mysore Inscriptions (vide Carmichael Professorship Lectures on Indian History by Prof. Bandharkar). If on the basis of such data we can start with the hypothesis of an early Jaina Kadamba immigration into South India in the early cen-. turies of the Christian era, I think'there is clear enough evidence to indicate the route of their immigration along the East Coast through Kõsala and Kalinga. Taylor's Catalogue of Oriental MSS. (Voļ. III, p. 60) contains references to a Kannada work speaking about a line of Kadamba kings who ruled in Magadba. If from Magadha, they wished to migrate to South India, they had to pass through Kõsala and Kælinga. Such would , be the most natural route for a migration. On pp. 704-5 in the same volume, there are references to a Marathi work containing accounts of a later Kadamba King Mayuravarma (of Southern Karnāta branch) from which the only valid inference that can be drawn is that he
SR No.011096
Book TitleStudies in South Indian Jainism
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorM S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
PublisherM S Ramaswami Ayyangar
Publication Year1922
Total Pages354
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size22 MB
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