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The impalement of the Jains is a 7th-century event, first mentioned in an 11th-century hagiographic Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi. According to this hagiographic text, Jain monks allegedly persecuted the 7th-century Shaivite child-saint Sambandar and tried to kill him. When that failed, they challenged him to a philosophical debate. Sambandar 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 impalement of 8,000 Tamil Jains or Samanars as they were called. According to the early version of the legend, the Jains voluntarily impaled themselves in order to fulfill their vow after losing the debate. According to a much later version of the legend found in Takkayakapparani – a

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  • The impalement of the Jains is a 7th-century event, first mentioned in an 11th-century hagiographic Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi. According to this hagiographic text, Jain monks allegedly persecuted the 7th-century Shaivite child-saint Sambandar and tried to kill him. When that failed, they challenged him to a philosophical debate. Sambandar 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 impalement of 8,000 Tamil Jains or Samanars as they were called. According to the early version of the legend, the Jains voluntarily impaled themselves in order to fulfill their vow after losing the debate. According to a much later version of the legend found in Takkayakapparani – a (en)
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  • The impalement of the Jains is a 7th-century event, first mentioned in an 11th-century hagiographic Tamil language text of Nambiyandar Nambi. According to this hagiographic text, Jain monks allegedly persecuted the 7th-century Shaivite child-saint Sambandar and tried to kill him. When that failed, they challenged him to a philosophical debate. Sambandar 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 impalement of 8,000 Tamil Jains or Samanars as they were called. According to the early version of the legend, the Jains voluntarily impaled themselves in order to fulfill their vow after losing the debate. According to a much later version of the legend found in Takkayakapparani – a war poem, the newly converted king ordered the Jains to be impaled at Sambandar's instigation. The Pandyan king, variously called "Koon Pandiyan" or "Sundara Pandyan" in the legend is identified with the 7th century ruler Arikesari Maravarman. Similar stories of impalement of Vaishnavas are also found. There are pictures of this incidents on the wall of Madurai Temple. Local Hindus cebebrate the day of impalment as a festival. Scholars question whether this story is a fiction created in the 11th-century, or reflects an actual massacre. This event is not mentioned in few other texts of Sambandar. After Nambiyandar's work, the story appears in many inconsistent versions in various Hindu texts. The Jain sources do not mention the legend. (en)
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