Historical Review of Contribution of Jainism to Early Kannada Literature

Abstract

   

Kannada, a Dravidian language, is one of the historical and important literary languages in India. It has a script of its very own and has a population of about sixty million. It had branched off from the Proto-Dravidian circle of relatives of languages in round 6th century BC, and had end up a written language via the beginning of present day generation.