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was born. In the beginning of the world when Brahma created Swayambhu Manu and Satya Rupa He was fifth in descent from them. He lived by the end of the first Kritayuga and twenty-eight Kritayugas are to pass in this Manvantara. This Rishabha preached Jainism, In Shlokas 9-11 of the Sixth Adhyaya, the author of the Bhagavata speaks of one Arhat, a Raja of Konka, Venka, and Nata, who, he says, hearing of the Charitra of Rishabha from his countrymen, would start in Kaliyuga a religion the followers of which would hate the Brahmanas and go to hell.
यस्य किलानुचरितमाश्रमातीत मुपाकर्ण्य को वेङ्क कुटकाना राजीनामो पशिक्ष्य कलावधर्म उत्कृष्य माणेभवितव्येन विमोहितः स्वधर्म पथमकुतोभयमप हाय कुपथपा खण्डम समन्जसं निजमनीषयामन्दः सम्प्रवर्तयिष्यते ॥ ॥
ये नटवावकलौ मनुजापसदादेव माया मोहिताः स्वविधि नियोग शौच चारित्र विहीनादेव हेलनान्यप ब्रतानि निज निजेच्छ या गुण्डाना अस्नानाना चमनाशौच के शोलुंचनादीनि कलिनाऽधर्म बहुलेनो पहतधि यो ब्रह्म ब्राह्मण यज्ञ पुरुष लोक विदूषकाः प्रायेण भविष्यन्ति ॥ १० ॥
तेचार्वाक्त नयानिजलोकयात्रयान्ध परम्परयाश्वस्तास्तमस्यन्धे स्वयमेव प्रपतिष्यन्ति ११ पंचम स्कन्ध ० ६.
No such Raja has ever lived, nor in any other Brahmanical writing where the word Arhat occurs is he spoken of as a Raja of Konka, Vanka, and Nata, so far as I have been able to ascertain. Arhat means praiseworthy if the word be derived from Arh to praise;
