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( 41 ) Führer at Muttra, an evidence nearly two thousand years old, to support those traditions. You know Prof. Bühler has edited many iriscriptions of the Jains in Epigraphia Indica, vols. I and II. These inscriptions are two thousand years old. They bear the Samvat of the Indo-Scythian Kings, Kanishka, Huvashka, and Vasudeva. In these inscriptions we read that images were dedicated by lay Jains to Rishabha. For instance, see the following inscriptions :
No. VIII. “Success! In the year 40 (60) of the great king (and) suprenie king of kings, Deva Putra Huvashka, in the fourth month of winter on the tenth day,--on that (datę specified as) above, (this) meritorious gift (was made) for the sake of great happiness by Datta, the wife of Ka Pasaka, an inhabitant of...vata, (at the request) of... ... ... ......ganin, the venerable Kharnna, pupil of the preacher, the venerable. Vriddhahasti out of the Kottiyaganą, the Sthanikiya Kula fạnd) the Sakha of the Aryya-Veriyas (the followers of Arya:. Vajra). May the Divine (and) glorious Rishabha bę pleased.”
.: P. 386, vol. I. ... No. XIV. "Success! The pupil of the venerable J.eshtahasti (Jyeshthahastin) out of the Kottiyagana, the Brahmadasika Kula, the Uchche-nagari Şakha and the arina sumbhaga (was) the venerable Mahala; the pupil of the venerable Jeshtahasti (Jyeshthahaştin)
