Vijayanagar rulers were patrons of learning. They encouraged and rewarded scholars and made no distinction on grounds of caste or creed. Many Jain scholars flourished during this period and produced scholarly works.
Among the Jain writers, Bahubali (c. 1360) and Madhura (c. 1385) who flourished in the earlier period of the empire wrote in classical champu style.
The works of both these scholars were on the life of Dharmanatha, the fifteenth Tirthankara.
Madhura’s another work Gommatasataka is a poem dealing with national beauty. Mangarasa’s (c. 1508) most important works was Nemijinesasangati. Bhaskara’s Jivandharacharita shows definite traces of bhakti cult.