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Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.489

Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.489

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c19.489

A detailed description of Campā and its beautiful shrine Punnabhadda is given in the *Ovāiya*, where Mahāvīra, moving in the company of a large number of monks and nuns, arrived, and the king Kūṇiya with his paraphernalia went on his pilgrimage¹⁴² It is mentioned that in Campā the first and the tenth sections of the fifth chapter of the *Bhagvatī* were preached by the Teacher,¹⁴³ and *Uvāsagadasāo* and *Antagaḍadasāo*, the seventh and the eighth Angas of the Jain Canon, were explained by Ajja Suhamma to his disciple Jambu¹⁴⁴