[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s13.232 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.232 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.232 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s13.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.232) Three of the records mentioned just above are of special interest, in shewing that Buddhism was still, in the ninth century A. D., a living religion, favoured by the authorities, in Western India.⁵ At the same time, however, a sudden development, of a very marked kind, was being accomplished by its chief rival, Jainism, which was eventually to do more than any other form of belief towards its downfall. The writer Jinasêna, who has been referred to above in connection with Gôvinda III., was one of a series of celebrated Digambara Jain authors, who came to the front, propagating their religion, and increasing the power of their sect as they did so, during the earlier part of the Râshtrakûṭa period.⁶ The first of these authors was Samantabhadra, whose “appearance in Southern India marks an epoch, not “only in the annals of Digambara Jainism, but in the history of “Sanskrit literature;” and whose chief work, the Âptamîmâmsâ, “is “regarded as the most authoritative exposition of the syâdvâda-doc-“trine and of the Jain notion of an omniscient being, and passes in - [Previous: c8.s13.231](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.231) - [Next: c8.s13.233](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.233) - [Up: c8.s13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13) ## Cites (1) - [Āptamīmāṃsā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.anuyoga.phil.nyaya.aptasarvajna.aptamimamsa) — Samantabhadra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.232](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.232) · Pramāṇa