The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.30

c33.30

¹ ‘For more than a thousand years after the beginning of the Christian era, Jainism was the religion professed by most of the rulers of the Kanarese people. The Ganga kings of Talkād, the Rāshtrakūta and Kālachūrya kings of Mānyakheta, and the early Hoysalas were all Jainas.’ The Brahmanical Kadamba and early Chālukya kings were tolerant of Jainism. ‘The Pandyan kings of Madura were Jainas; and Jainism was dominant in Gujarat and Kāthiāwār. On the other hand, the Pallavas of Kānchī and the Cholas of Uraiyūr and Tanjore, were strongly Hindu and hostile to Jainism’ (Rice, *Hist. Kanarese Lit.*, p. 16).