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MODERN JAINISM.
S'veta'mbara Evening Worship. Hatthisisha's temple in Ahmedabad is a modern Jaina sanctuary famous for its architectural beauty. Its façade, decorated with Ionic and Corinthian pillars, seems however curiously out of keeping with the rest of the building; and it is the entrance to this temple which is defaced by the notice: " Low-caste servants in attendance on visitors and Jogs cannot be allowed to enter the temple."
Arriving at the time for evening worship, we were allowed to pass into the Gabhāro, where the worshippers were prostrating themselves before the idol.
The pujāri was, in this case, a Kanabi ( or farmer ) by caste. He lighted two little earthen lamps (kodiyān $lishi) in the Sevāno Gabhāro and placed tuem on candlesticks before the image of Dharmanātha (the 15th Tirtharkara); then, lighting two little sticks of incense, he placed them too before the image. Next he lit a little kodiyum and placed it in the Gabhāro at the right of the door leading into the Sevāno Gabhāro and hung a brush of soft peacock's feathers on the door.
(A worshipper coming up at this moment was given an incense stick which he waved before the shrine; afterwards, putting that down, he took the brush of peacock feathers and waved that
The pujāri proceeded to get ready the A'rati, and then the Mangaladipa (single light), by taking little portions of cotton wool, dipping them in ghi and putting them in the lamps, which were then lit.
A drum was beaten and two bells rung in different parts of the temple. A worshipper, who had offered a pice
