Samprati's Southern Campaigns: Difference between revisions

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In reality, these revenue collectors were also [[Jainism|Jaina monks]]. Having set the groundwork, Samprati then persuaded his religious superiors to send actual monks to these regions, believing they would be able to live there without difficulty.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55603|title=The Cambridge History Of India Vol.i|last=Rapson|first=E. J.|date=1935|pages=512}}</ref> As a result, Jain missionaries were dispatched to the Andhras and Dravidians, who found the conditions just as the king had described. Thus, [[Jainism]] spread among these previously uncivilized communities.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/archeologyofworl0001fine|title=The Archeology of World Religions|last=Finegan|first=Jack|date=1952|others=Internet Archive|pages=219}}</ref>

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