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'''Dravida Sangha''' was established in 470&nbsp;CE by a [[Tamil Jain|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. The Jain Dravida Sangha aimed at creating a casteless society, inspired by the Jain school of thought.{{cn|date=June 2021}} The Dravida Sangha was also one of the first groups to espouse a Dravidian identity among Tamils and other south Indians.{{cn|date=June 2021}} 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:<br />
:"There was a Jaina assembly called a Sa(n)gha established about 604 AD in Maturai."<ref>{{cite book|last=Hart|first=George|title=The Milieu of the Ancient Tamil Poems|url=http://tamil.berkeley.edu/html/chapter_1.html|archive-url=https://archive.is/19970709071128/http://tamil.berkeley.edu/html/chapter_1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1997-07-09|publisher=University of California, Berkeley}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
Dravida Sangha is said to have been established by Vajranandi in 470 CE.<ref>{{citation |title=Jainism - Its relevance to psychiatric practice; with special reference to the practice of Sallekhana |pmc=5270277 | pmid=28197009 | doi=10.4103/0019-5545.196702 |volume=58 |year=2016 |journal=Indian J Psychiatry |pages=471–474 | last1 = Somasundaram | first1 = O | last2 = Tejus Murthy | first2 = AG | last3 = Raghavan | first3 = DV|issue=4 }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Tamil Jain]]<br />
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