South Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
Contents
List of Plates
Additions and Corrections
Images
Contents
Chaudhury, P.D.
Chhabra, B.ch.
DE, S. C.
Desai, P. B.
Dikshit, M. G.
Krishnan, K. G.
Desai, P. B
Krishna Rao, B. V.
Lakshminarayan Rao, N., M.A.
Mirashi, V. V.
Narasimhaswami, H. K.
Pandeya, L. P.,
Sircar, D. C.
Venkataramayya, M., M.A.,
Venkataramanayya, N., M.A.
Index-By A. N. Lahiri
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

TWO JAINA INSCRIPTIONS IN TAMIL

P. B. DESAI, OOTACAMUND

While surveying the epigraphical sources for my work on Jainism in South India,^[2] I had to go through the Jaina inscriptions in the Tamil country critically. In the course of this study I noticed certain peculiar features regarding the religious history of Jainism in this region, which had a characteristic development of its own. One of them is the evolution of the Yakshī cult. With a view to illustrating this particular point I select here two typical inscriptions^[3] and try to explain their significance briefly.

INSCRIPTION I

This inscription is engraved on a boulder of the hillock called Āṇḍimalai near the village Chōḷavāṇḍipuram in the Tirukkovilur taluk of the South Arcot District, Madras State. It was copied by the office of the Superintendent for Epigraphy, Madras, in the field season of 1936-37.^[4] The bolder containing this inscription leans against another boulder thus forming

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^[1] This verse makes it clear that the record was first written on the plate with ink or similar material and then engraved.
^[2] This volume comprises a detailed survey of the Jaina inscriptions selected from the three main regions of South India, namely, Āndhradēśa, Tamilnāḍ and Karnāṭaka. The book which is now in an advanced stage of printing is being published as the third issue of the series Jīvarāja Jaina Granthamālā, Sholāpur.
^[3] My thanks are due to the Government Epigraphist for India for his kind permission to edit these records here.
^[4] It is registered as No. 251 of the year’s epigraphical collection.

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