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The larger inscription, unfortunately very much disfigured, contains an account of the life of Kharavela from the childhood till the thirteenth year of his reign. It begins with an appeal to tlie Arhat and Siddha, which corresponds to the beginning of the five-fold form of homage still used among the Jains, and mentions the building of temples in honour of the Arhat as well as an image of the first Jina, which was taken away by a hostile king. The second and sinaller inscription asserts that Kharavela's wife caused a cave to be prepared for the asceties of Kalinga, "who believed in the Arhat".
P. 40 The Indian Sect of the Jains By J. G. BUHLER & J. BURGESS.
Nore No. 12 A. MRS. ANNIE BESAN'T the President of the 9th Anniversary celebration of Syadvada Mahavidyalaya on the visit of Dr. Jacobi said in her lecture that Lord Mahavira was the last and not the first of the great twenty four teachers, that Europe denied the historicity of the other 23 Tirthankaras who preceded him because, being itself young, it could not travel backward far enough and liked to make Indian thought less ancient than it is, that both Jainism and Hinduisın went back further than either history or legend counted them, that Jainism was essentially an independent system of thought, that though it had a superficial resemblance
