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the wife of Jamali. His father and mother frequently mentioned than the others, and their died when he was 28 years of age, and he con- statues are more numerous. tinued for two years afterwards with Nandi. Besides the Tîrthankaras of the present (Ava. vardhana: he then departed to practise sarpint) cycle of the world's duration, they Austerities, which he continued twelve and a reckon also twenty-four each of the past and half years as a sage only in outward disguise : future (Utsarpint) renovations or cycles. Heas a Digambara "he went robeless, and had no machandra gives the names of the whole fortyvessel but his hand." Finally he became an eight in the following lines :Arhat, or Jina, being worthy of universal ado- Utsarpinyámatitayam chaturvinsatirachatâm ration, omniscient, and all-seeing; and at the Kevaladnyâni Nirvani Sagaro-tha Mahîyasah || nge of seventy-two years he became exempt from Vimalah Sarvanubhậtiḥ75ridharoDatta tîrthaall pain for ever. This is said to have occurred
krit | at Pâ wapuri or På på puri near Raja- Damodara! Sutejâsch" Svâmyatho Munisuvragriha at the court of Hastipala, three tah | and a half months before the close of the fourth 138umatih Sivagati schaiy15 Astágo thal6Nimisage or Dukhamú Sulchamd in the great period varaḥ 1 named avasarpini. “On the night on which 17 AnilosVasodharà khyaḥ1®Kritârgho tha'Jinethe adorable ascetic here was delivered from svarah | pain, Gotama Indra bhuti, the chief of 219uddhamatihasivakarahSyandana échâtha his perfectly initiated disciples, had the bonds of Sampratih affection by which he was tied to his preceptor Bhâvinyan tu Padmanabhaḥ"SûradevahSupárscut asunder, and attained infinite, certain, and vakah | supreme intelligence, and perception." This "Svayamprabha scha'Sarvanabhâtir Deva"Śruevent the Gujarat Jainas date 470 before the todayau Samvat of Vikrama, i.e. B. c. 526"; others ap. Pedhilah'Pottilasch&pi10Satakirti écha?!Suvra. parently 512 years before Vikrama, or B. c. tahl 569+; the Jainas of Bengal 580, and those of 1- Amamo nigh"Kashayascha nish”Pulako tha Maisur 607 before Vikrama, but probably by nir! Mamah mistake for the Saka era, which would bring these 16 Chitraguptah 17 Samadhi scha!!Sanvara schal latter dates to B. c. 502 and 539 respectively. & Yasodharah |
Adiswara, śânti, Nemi, Parswa, and Vira, the 20 Vijayoal Malla Devauch.Ânantavirya écha first, sixteenth, and last three Tirthankaras are Bhadrakriti regarded as the principal jinas: they are more Evam sarvavasarpinyatsarpiņishu jinottamah ||
THE LEGEND OF RISHYA ŚRINGA.
BY V. N. NARASIMMIYENGAR, BENGALOR. In one of the deepest and most romantic glenstions are among the most valuable, consisting of of the Maisûr Malnad, formed by the buttresses supari, cardamoms, rice, &c. Territorially, the of the Western Ghats, is nestled the shrine of village of Kigga is in the Koppa Taluka of Sriñgesvara of Kigga. The locality is extreme-| the Nagar Division. There is a tradition atly picturesque, and the habits and enstoms of taching to this shrine to the effect that no the inhabitants are very primitive. The soil is drought will ever approach within 12 gåvadas rich, and, though thinly scattered, the peasants of the god. In seeking the origin of this tradi. are by no means over-industrious. The produc- tion, the following legend has been gathered.
• Cont. Stevenson, Kalpa Satra, pp. 86, 90, 91, 99, 96. Értevkmi, and Sriastagn, and the affir ji is usually added to + Prinsep's Useful Tables (1858), p. 166.
each. To most of the names of the Future Jin the affix
is náthayanama, and the 6th, 7th, 15th, 21st and 22nd are 1 Kalpa Satra, prof. p. iii.
respectively onlled Srljivaders, Srutodanatha, Mamanmu. $ Weber would bring down this date to 848 or 849 B. C.
nátha, Srl Mallinkths, and Sjina deva. See Brigga, Cities iTber Catr. Mahat. p. 12.
of Gujarashtra, p. 340. • Abhidhana Chintamani, 58-70. In other liste, the
TA gåvada is popularly known to be about 12 English 8th, 11th, and 15th of the Past Age are styled Sridetta, mile.
