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... even from their enemies, and some of their works are still of importance to European science. In southern India, where they worked among the Dravi[d.]ian tribes, they also advanced the development of these languages. The Kanarese literary language and the Tamil and Telugu rest on the foundations laid by the Jaina monks. This activity led them, indeed, far from their proper goal, but it created for them an important position in the ...

— On the Indian Sect of the Jainas • Johann George Buehler

... common grass growing in somewhat moist situations. This is the well-known Chengali gaddi of the Telugu districts. ...

— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

... souls there held captive by Yama, the lord of the lower world. (See a paper by Professor E. R. Cowell, LL.D., in the "Journal of Philology," 1876, vol. vi. pp. 222-231.) This legend also exists in Telugu, under the title of "Sananda Charitra," of which the outline is given in Taylor's "Catalogue Raisonne of Oriental MSS. in the Government Library, Madras," vol. ii. p. 643: Sananda, the son of Purna Vitta and Bhadra Datta, heard from munis accounts of the pains of the wicked, and wishing to see ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Telugu" : South-Central Dravidian, Dravidian