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RELIGIOUS SECTS
JINADATTA, originated the Ośwál family, and the Madhyakhartara branch; he was a teacher of great celebrity, and impressions of his feet in plaster or on stone are preserved in some temples, as at Bhelupur in Benares; he lived in 1148. Other divisions, either of a religious or civil nature, are attributed to various teachers, as the Chitrabala Gachcha to JINAPATI SÚRI, in A. D. 1149; the Anchalika doctrine to JINEŚVARA in 1160; the Laghu Khartara family to JINACHANDRA in 1265; another JINACHANDRA, the 61st in the list, was cotemporary with AKBAR. The list closes with the 70th Jina, HARSHA SÚri, with whom, or his pupils, several works originated in the end of the seventeenth century.
Admitting this record to have been carefully preserved, we have seventy-one persons from Mahấvira, to whom a period of less than fourteen centuries can scarcely be assigned, and whose series would, therefore, have begun in the third century. It is not at all unlikely that such was the case, but no positive con
tinction which was bestowed by that great supporter of the Buddhists or Jains, SiDRÁJ, King of Anhalvára Pattan, on one of the branches (Gachch) in a grand religions disputation at the capital, in the eleventh century. The accounts are by no means incompatible, and my authority represents Jinešvari victorious in a controversy.
HEMACHANDRA, at the end of the Mahavira Charitra, after stating that VAJRASVání founded the VAJRAŠÁKNÁ, which was established in the Chandra Gachcha, gives the teachers of that family down to himself, YAŠOBITADRA, PRADYUMNA, VIŠVASENA, DevACHANDRA, and HEMACHIANDRA.
