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number of mendicants became so numerous that there was a dispersion of the community, and Madyantika, with 10,000 Rabats, proceeded to the north and finally settled in Kashmir. There 1 was a great conversion of the followers of King Sudanu, the grandson of Ajátasatru, under this patriarch.
5. Upagupta ; contemporary with KAlasoka. 100 A.B. Under him the first great division of the Church took place, and the second council was held.
6. Daitika, or Dhitika.
7. Kala; according to Târánátha, this patriarch was principally concerned in the conversion of Ceylon and Orissa.
8. Sudarsana, engaged principally in the conversion of Sindh, and South India.
9. Katyayana. 10. Mahaloma.
11. Párávika, or Pâráva, principally instrumental in the conversion of Asvagosha. (Tárnátha speaks of this patriarch under the name of Nandi.)
12. Mahatyaga (sometimes spoken of as Fana-ya-shi, Wong Puh, 197).
13. Ašvagosha, a very celebrated patriarch (vide his Life, translated by Wassilief, Ind. Ant vol. IV. p. 141). 14. Kabimara (Kia-pi-mo-lo).
15. Nagarjuna, supposed to have been contemporary with Vikramaditya.
16. Åryadeva, or sometimes simply Deva. He was a disciple of Nagarjuna, and an interest
ing anecdote of his zoal is recorded by Wong Puh, $ 188.
17. Ragurata. 18. Sanganandi.
19. Goyasheta (placed 74 B.c. by Julien, vol. II. p. 346).
20. Kumarila. 21. Jayata.
22. Vasubhanda, generally placed as contemporary with Vikramaditya.
23. Manura. 24. Haklena.
25. Sitsi, driven out of Kashmir and north India by the cruel persecution of Mahirakula. This king is the Mehrkul of the Ayin Akbari, vol. II. p. 145. He is placed by Cunningham about 500 A.D., and made contemporary with Baláditya (Arch. Rep. vol. I., p. 12). But Fergnsson places him in the second century (TY. and Serp. Wor. p. 165), which is more probable.
26. Bashiasita. 27. Putniamitta.
29. Bodhidbarma, who arrived in China A.D. 526.
The succession in China was kept up until A.D. 713, when it was finally lost. The names of the Chinese Patriarchs were these :
1. Bodhidharma. 2. Hoei-kho-ta-szu ...died 592 A.D. 3. Seng-lin-ta-zn...... , 606 4. Tao-tin-ta-szu ...... 5. Houng-jin-ta-szu ... , 6. Hoei-neng-ta-szu ... »
THE SAIVA PARIKRAMÂ.
BY BHAGVÅNLÅL INDRAJI PANDIT. Round the old Sivalayas or great temples of the back, with Kârtikgwâmi or Siva at the left Siva we often find a number of smaller shrines. side, and Ganapati with Bhringi at the right. Thus round the Vimâna of the great temple of The next, on the south-east corner, was dedicated Kailasa at Elura, there are five such shrines on to Chanda, whose image is one of the most the same platform. They are now empty, and disgusting in the Hindu Pantheon; he is reprethe visitor may be at a loss to know their desig. sented nude, in lustful excitement, either with nations. At the back of the great hall there is two or four hands, holding the trisula and a A door near each corner leading out upon the jug or a damru, with Siva's third eye in his foreplatform on which these temples stand, and head, and his hair in the jatd or Yogi's style. which forms a pradakshind or ambulatory pas- The refuse of the offerings in a Saiva temple sage round the great shrine of the linga. Passing were thrown to him. Behind the great shrine, out by the door at the right or south end of the or on the east side, the small shrine is for back wall, the first shrine was dedicated to the Pârvati, whose place is just behind her lord's. Mátris, whose seven seats are arranged along The fourth on the north-east is for Bhairava
1 From The Oriental, Sept. 25, 1876.
