Jnanasambandar: Nanda Chandran's question

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

    Also, I. V. Peterson, "Srama.nas against the Tamil way: Jains as
    Others in Tamil "Saiva literature, p. 163-186 in
    Open Boundaries, Jain communities and cultures in Indian history,
    ed., J. E. Cort, SUNY, 1998. In this article, the brahmin-vellala
    alliance of the tamil lands, brilliantly formulated by B. Stein is
    used.  Tamil periapura.nam portrays this alliance and for a
    contrast, V. N. Rao, Warriors of "Siva, a translation of the
    veerashaiva work narrating tamil nayanars myths in Telugu.


Prof. Alvappillai Veluppillai <alvapillai.veluppillai at TEOL.UU.SE> wrote:
>
> The story of the persecution of the Jains by Jnanasambandar has an
> interesting development in Tamil. Sambandar's hymns, dated in 7th c.  refer
> to disputation only. Nampiyandar Nampi, a Brahmin author of 11th c. was the
> first to credit Sambandar with persecution of 8000 Jains. Some later
> authors accept persecution story but try to exonerate Sambandar. The story
> of persecution of 8000 is highly improbable.
> T. P. Meenakshisunderanar deals with this problem in his book, Sambandarum
> Samanarum (Sennai, Rudra Press, 1957).
> Perhaps the latest publication on this problem is
> A. Veluppillai, "The Hindu Confrontation with the Jaina and the Buddhist.
> Saint Tirunanacampantar's Polemical Writings", The Problem of Ritual, ed.
> T. Ahlback ( �bo: The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and
> Cultural History, 1993), pp. 335- 364.


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