Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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K. N. S. PILLAI-Agastya in the Tamil land. Madras, (1930?)
P. 22. Buddhists and Jains preceded Hindu Aryans in their arrival in the Tamil land in first two centuries B.C.
P. 23. Buddhists and Jinas--propagandists of their faith unlike Brahmans,
P. 24. The Tamil people-treated to stories of social, religious and spiritual kingship and were thus brought over to view the Jain and Buddhistic sectaries.
P. 26. Advent of Nayanars and the Alvars-powerful means of stamping out Buddhism and Jainsim from the Tamil land.
P. 43.
Influence of Tolkappiyam a Jain work over Tamil literature.
P. 43 (n). Tolkappiyam-a 4th centuay A.D. Jain work.
P. 44. Theological conceptions and cosmogonic legends of the Jains show a family linkness to those of the orthodox Hindus except in a few abstract doctrinal points.
P. 44 (n). Early Kanarese and Tamil literature and civilization highly influenced by the works of the Jain monks.
P 45 (n). The age of Tirujnānasambandha and Tirunavukkarasu (about the beginning of 7th century A.D.)--a dividing line marking earlier and later periods of the Jain History in Tamilagam.
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R. D. BANERJI ---History of Orissa. (From the earliest Times to the British Period). Vol. I Calcutta, 1930.
Pp. 59-61. Orissa under the Nandas and the Mauryas. References in the Hāthigumphā) inscription of Khāravela about the Nandas (Nandarāja). Khāravela brought back the image of Kalinga Jina from Magadha. Orissa a Jaina stronghold from the very beginning. Identification of Kalinga. Jina with the tenth Tirthankara, Sitalanātha, who was born at Bhadalpur, which is same as Bhadrāchalam or Bhadrapuram in the Kalinga country. This Bhadrachalam is in the Godavari district of the Madras presidency.