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called GAUTAMAS. VYAKTA and SUDHARMÁ were the sons of DHANAMITRA and DHAMMILLA, two Brahmans of Kollaku, the former of the Bharadwája, and the latter of the Agnivarsya tribe. MANDITA and MAURYAPUTRA were half-brothers, the sons of VIJAYADEVÍ by DHANADEVA and MAURYA, two Brahmans of the Vásishtha and Kusyapa races, but cousins by the mother's side, and consequently, according to the custom of the country, it is stated, the one took the other's widow to wife upon his decease. AKAMPITA was the son of a Maithili Brahman, of the Gautama tribe; ACHALABHRÁTA, of a Brahman of Oude, of the Harita family; METÁRYA was a Brahman of Vatsa, of the Kaundinya tribe; and PrabhÁSA, a Brahman of the same race, but a native of Rájagriha in Behár. These are the eleven Gańadharas, or Gańádhipas, holders or masters of Jain schools, although, before their conversion, learned in the four Vedas, and teaching the doctrines contained in them.
These converts to Jain principles are mostly made in the same manner: each comes to the Saint, prepared to overwhelm him with shame, when he salutes them mildly by name, tells them the subject that excites their unuttered doubts and solves the difficulty, not always very satisfactorily or distinctly, it must be admitted; but the whole is an epitome of the Jain notions on those subjects which chiefly engage the attention of the Hindu philosophers.
INDRABHÚTI doubts whether there be life (Jíva) or not-MATTÁVÍRA says there is, and that it is the vessel
