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The Heritage of India Series. A History of Kanarese Literature. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged

1921

It includes the whole of Mysore the western half of the Nizam's Dominions and the southern (so-called South Mahratta and North Canara ") districts of the Bombay Presidency together with the districts of South Canara and Bellary in the Madras Presidency. [...] May the sacred Jaina doctrine the doctrine of the lord of the three worlds be victorious ;—the supreme profound syadvada the token of unfailing success." This couplet is placed at the head of most Jaina inscriptions. [...] And finally in the sixteenth century a wave of Vaishpava enthusiasm inspired by Chaitanya preaching the doctrine of Krishnbhakti swept over the peninsula and completed the alienation of the people from the austere teacIPing of the Jainas.2 Despite this change in the attitude of the people many works continued to be written by Jainas ; but their learned men lived in retirement and no long [...] learning and eloquence] from the tip of his tongue as Siva produced the Ganges from the tip of his top-knot." And Bhattäklanka the great Kanarese grammarian (1604) refers to the book as the greatest work in the language and as incontestable proof of the scholarly character arA value of Kanarese literature. [...] JAINA WRITERS FROM THE KAVIRAJAMARGA TO THE LINGAYAT REVIVAL (1160) During the first half of this period the patipns of Kanarese literature were—in the north the Rashtrakiltas of Manyakheta and in the south the Gangas of Talkad.
history
Pages
133
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144960
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Frontmatter
i-10 Edward Rice view
I. The Kanarese Language and Country
11-16 Edward Rice view
II. The Jaina Feriod to A.D. 1160
17-41 Edward Rice view
III. Jaina Literature from 1160-1600
42-48 Edward Rice view
IV. The Rise of Lingayatism A.D. 1160
49-58 Edward Rice view
V. Lingayat Writers from 1160-1600
59-74 Edward Rice view
VI. The Rise of Vaishnava Literature 1500-1600
75-82 Edward Rice view
VII. Kanarese Literature in the XVII and XVIII Centuries
83-98 Edward Rice view
VIII. The Modern Period Nineteenth Century
99-104 Edward Rice view
IX. Some Characteristics of Kanarese Literature
105-109 Edward Rice view
X. Kanarese Grammarians
110-113 Edward Rice view
XI. Sanskrit Writers in the Kanarese Country
114-115 Edward Rice view
Leading Dates
116-118 Edward Rice view
Index
119-128 Edward Rice view
Backmatter
129-129 Edward Rice view

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