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THE KALPA SÚTRA.
BOOK I.
TIIE LIFE OF MAMÁVÍRA*.
CHAPTER I.
HIS INCARNATION.
Adoration to the sages who have risen to be worthy of divine honour. Aloration to those who have attuined perfection. Adoration to those who regulate our religious services. Adoration to our
* The proper name of the last Tirthankar is Vardhamana, but both in this work and in common usage the above cpithet, meaning the Hero, has so completely usurped the planer of the other, that it would be atlectation to make the required substitution in the translation.