History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c41.s8.1

v3.c41.s8.1

While this new Vaishṇavism in different forms was thus developing in opposition to Śaivism in the east and the south i. e. in Andhra and Tamil land, Śaivism was again asserting itself in Karṇātaka in the rise of the Lingayat schism at this very time. It was in fact a strenuous re-assertion against Jainism which for a few years suddenly strove to obtain mastery over it in northern Karṇātaka under the Kalachūri usurpation, a frantic effort so to speak by Śaivism to regain its lost ground.