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his career.
CHAPTER II. THE JAIN MIGRATION TO THE SOUTH. Bhadrabāhu, the last Sruta Kevalī, is, from Bhadrabāha : the view point of Jain history, a most important figure. Born of a Brahmin priest; the saint was destined to play a great part in the religious history of India. His father was a Brahmin, Sõmasarma by name. From an inspection of the child's horoscope, the father perceived that. he would become a great upholder of the Jain faith and so named him Bhadrabāhu. The child was, in due course, brought up in the Jain faith in the house of Akshashrāvaka. Through the instructions of this Svāmi and other Sruta Kevalīs, the boy soon acquired a knowledge of the four great branches of learning, Yogini, Sangini, Prajnyani and Prajlatkena of the Veda, of the four Anuyoga of grammar, and the fourteen sciences. Eventually, with the consent of his parents, he took the Dīksha and by the practice of Jnāna, Dhyāna, Tapas and Samyama, became an Acharya. It was this Acharya that, during the days of Chandragupta Maurya, led a great migration to South India, so important and fruitful of consequences. The main incidents regarding the advent of this Jain sage into Mysore are graphically narrated in Sravana Belgola IŅscription No. la The story is told that Bhadrabāhusvāmi.“ who by virtue of severe penance had acquired the essence of knowledge, having, by his power of discerning the past, present and future, foretold in Ujjain, a peri$d of twelve years of dire calamity and famine, the whole of the Sangha living in the northern regions took
