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gentle souls who have cut short the fitful fever of their life in a ghastly parody of the hope of a blessed resurrection'." This applies aptly to the story of Gayasukumala. Another important feature of this stratum is the prediction by the Saint Aritt hanemi of the destruction of Baravai and the death of Kanha Vasudeva.
The contents of Anuttarovavaia-Dasao are given in Sūtra 7. i. e. at the end of the work. P. 84 Text. The interest of this small scripture consists only in the story of Dhanna. As a story, it has hardly any value but to a student of the language, it gives much lexical information.
Otherwise, both the scriptures for the most part contain merely a dreary list of legendary devotees who to catch the Holy Grail beyond, renounced their lives, entered the ascetic-order of Nigganthas and gave up this mortal coil by
starvation.
§6. As regards the style and structure, it may be remarked that both of them are mecha. nical. "One of the most curious features of the Jain scriptures is the mechanical character of their verbal structure. A vast number of phrases, sentences, the whole periods recur again and again with mathematical regularity; but instead of being written out in full, they are usually abbreviated,
