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KALPA SÚTRA.
number of male and female ascetics, and lay disciples. His death took place twelve hundred and thirty years before the composition of this work (i.e. B.C. 828). He died while with thirty others performing a fast on the top of Mount Sameta (Sikhar). He is also called Pársvanátha.
The Arhat Nemi was son of King Samudravijaya and his queen Sivá, and was born in the city of Sori (Agra). He was born in Srávan the first month of the rainy season, under the constellation Chitra. He became an ascetic at the age of three hundred at Dváraka (Mag. Baravaváe). He died on Mount Girnár, after living seven hundred years as an ascetic, in all a thousand years. He was only fifty-five days an imperfect ascetic. This book was composed eighty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty years after his death. He is also called Arishta Nemi, and Neminátha.
Rishabha, the Arhat of Kosala, was the son of Nábhi, and his queen Marudevi. He was born on the eighth day of the waning moon of Chaitra ; his mother dreamt of his birth as in the case of other Tirthankars, but saw the bull (Vrishabha) first, and instead of calling a Brahman to interpret particularly her dreams, Nábhi performed that
* Whatever may be said of the date of Malávíra's life, the author now undoubtedly runs wild. His dates are purely imaginary hence forward, and some are not found in all the copies.
