Impalement of the Jains in Madurai
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Impalement of the Jains in Madurai
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The impalement of the Jains is a South Indian legend, first mentioned in an 11th-century hagiographic Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi. According to the legend, Sambandar, who lived in the 7th century CE, defeated the Tamil Jain monks in a series of debates and contests on philosophy, thereby converted a Jain Pandyan king to Shaivism. The episode ended with the (voluntary) impalement of 8,000 Tamil Jains or Samanars as they were called. Tamil literature and Tevaram songs like III.345 por
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7th-century event
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impalement_of_the_Jains_in_Madurai
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2023-12-26T15:10:14Z
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