[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955) › c19.s3.6 # A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s3.6 A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c19.s3.6 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.6) The next great writer was Nāgacandra (c. 1105) a Jain and a man of means who built the Mallinātha Jinālaya dedicated to the nineteenth Tīrthankara at Bijapur and also wrote the \*Mallinātha-purāṇa\*, a Campū. But Nāgacandra is best known for his \*Rāmacandra-caritapurāṇa\* which gives the Jaina version of the Rāma legend in a Campū of sixteen sections, the story proper beginning only with the third. The poem was a necessary complement to the \*Bhārata\* of Pampa, and earned for its author the title Abhinava (new) Pampa. The story differs in many ways from Vālmīki's; Rāma gets the \*Jinadīkṣā\*, becomes a Jaina ascetic and attains \*Nirvāṇa\* at the end. To the first quarter of the twelfth century belong also a Jaina polemic \*Samayaparīkṣe\* of Brahmaśiva which seeks to establish the superiority of Jainism over all other creeds, and the \*Gōvaidya\* of Kīrttivarma, a work on veterinary science, half-medicine and half-magic. Round about 1145, Karṇapārya wrote the life of the twenty-second \*Tīrthankara\* in his \*Nēminātha-purāṇa\*, a Campū in fourteen \*āśvāsas\* in which the story of Krishna and the \*Mahābhārata\* are also cleverly worked in. To the same time belongs Nāgavarma II, the author of \*Kāvyāvalōkana\*, an important work on the grammar and rhetoric of Kannada in five sections; it takes the form of Sūtras in verse illustrated by examples from literature. Another work of Nāgavarma on grammar is the \*Karṇāṭakabhāṣābhūṣaṇa\*; here the Sūtras and a short explanation are both in Sanskrit, while the illustrations come from Kannada literature. The \*Vāstukōśa\*, a third work of Nāgavarma II, is a relatively short lexicon of 800 \*granthas\*, giving Kannada equivalents of Sanskrit terms. Nāgavarma was \*Kaṭakopādhyāya\* (camp-teacher) under Jagadekamalla II, whom he survived for many years, becoming the teacher of poet Janna (c. 1209). \*Udayādityālaṅkāra\* (c. 1150) is a short work on the art of poetry based on Dandin's \*Kāvyādarśa\* by a Chola prince whose name it bears. A work on medicine, Pūjyapāda's \*Kalyāṇakāraka\*, was translated from Sanskrit into Kannada at this time by a Jaina author Jagaddala Sōmanātha; 'the treatment it prescribes is entirely vegetarian and non-alcoholic.' Rājāditya (1190), a Jain of Pūvinabāge, showed great skill in reducing to easy verse the mathematical subjects he dealt with in several \*gaṇita\* works like \*Vyavahāra-gaṇita\*, \*Kṣetra-gaṇita\* and \*Līlāvati\*. - [Previous: c19.s3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.5) - [Next: c19.s3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.7) - [Up: c19.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3) ## Linked texts (10) - [Kalyāṇakāraka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.sangraha.kalyanakaraka) — Ugrāditya, Sanskrit - [Karṇāṭakabhāṣābhūṣaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.bhasabhusana) — Nāgavarma II, Sanskrit - [Līlāvaī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.prakrit.lilavai) — Kouhala, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit - [Kāvyāvalōkana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.sastra.kavyavalokana) — Nāgavarma II, Kannada - [Kāvyādarśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.kavyadarsa) — Daṇḍin, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Rāmacandracaritapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kannada.ramacandracaritapurana) — Nāgacandra, Kannada - [Nemināthapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kannada.neminathapurana) — Nemicandra (Kannada poet), Kannada - [Samayaparīkṣe](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.kannada.samayapariksa) — Brahmaśiva, Kannada - [Vyavahāragaṇita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.ganita.dravida.vyavaharaganita) — Rājāditya, Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sastri-1955.c19.s3.6) · Pramāṇa