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Besides these two great divisions, several minor sects are particularised as existing amongst the Jains. They appear, however, to be of no importance, as it has been found impossible to obtain any satisfactory account of the heresies they have adopted, or of their origin and present condition. Schism was contemporary even with Mahávíra, and his son-in-law, JAMÁLI, founded a dissentient order. His follower, Gośála, was also the institutor of a sect, and an impostor into the bargain, pretending to be the twenty-fourth Tirthankara. VAJRABANDA, the pupil of a very celebrated Digambara teacher, KUNDA KUŃÓ ACHÁRYA, founded the Drávida sect, according to some in the fifth, and to the others, in the seventh century. VAJRASVÁMÍ instituted the Mahániśitha sect, and JINENDRA SÚRI founded the Lampaka sect, by which images were discarded. The sects now most often heard of, although little known, are the Mula Sanghis, who use brushes of peacock's feathers, wear red garments, and receive alms in their hands: the Káshta Sanghis, who make their images of wood and employ brushes of the tail of the Yak: the Terah Panthis and Bís Panthis, or followers of thirteen and of twenty, said sometimes to refer to the number of objects which are most essential to salvation, and at others, explained by a legend of the foundation of the heresy by a number of persons, such as the denomination implies. Both these are said to deny the supremacy of a Guru, to dispense with the ministration of a Brahman, and to present no perfumes, flowers, nor fruits to the images of the
