Dravida Sangha

Dravida Sangha was established in 470 AD by a Jain monk named Vajranandi in the city of Madurai in present-day Tamil Nadu. Madurai at that time was under the sway of the Kalabhra rule.[1] Dravida Sangha was also mentioned by other Jaina literature for alleged laxity of conduct in respect to bathing and eating prescribed food. Furthermore, it was alleged that members of the Sangha also abandoned Jaina religious requirement of wandering mendicancy and adopted settled life such as trading and farming.[2] According to Prof. George L. Hart, who holds the endowed Chair in Tamil Studies by University of California, Berkeley, and has written that the legend of Tamil Sangam (literary assembly) was based on the Jain assembly (Sangham) at Madurai:

"There was a Jaina assembly called a Sa(n)gha established about 604 AD in Maturai."[3]
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Dravida Sangha is said to have been established by Vajranandi in 470 CE.[4]

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See also

References
  1. Takahashi, Takanobu. Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics. p. 232.
  2. Singh, Narendra. Encyclopaedia of Jainism. p. 2891.
  3. Hart, George. The Milieu of the Ancient Tamil Poems. University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on 9 July 1997.
  4. Somasundaram, O; Tejus Murthy, AG; Raghavan, DV (2016), "Jainism - Its relevance to psychiatric practice; with special reference to the practice of Sallekhana", Indian J Psychiatry, 58: 471–474, doi:10.4103/0019-5545.196702, PMC 5270277, PMID 28197009
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