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lead the soul to incarnation in one of the four classes of gods; also an account of the birthplaces of the gods.
13. The llahu-pundurika-prukīrnaku gives details of the causes, austerity, etc., that lead to a soul being reborn as Indra, Pratindra, etc.
14. The Vishidike-prakirnakit gives many methods of purifying oneself from the faults arising from carelessness.
The above account (Digambara, reproduced, with modifications, from the Jaine Gicette for 1905, pp. 133-10) of the Jaina Scriptures, as unfolded in the Angus and outside them, is largely based upon the Gommutui-süra by Sri Vemi-chandra SiddhāntaChakravartin, Jiru-kundu, 348 sqq. (for a similar list see the Tuttrūrthasürel-dīpaka of Sakala-kīrtti,chapteri, quoted by Sir R. G. Bhandarkar in his Report on the Search for Sanskrit JISS. 188.-4 (Bombay, 1887), pp. 106-10). It includes, as will be seen, works supposed to have been lost even at the time of the Council of Pātali-putra in B.C. 312: it is therefore of the nature of a dogma or canon. In the Samarāyaanga and in the Mandi-sūtra of the Svetāmbaras ve find similar lists, with variations, however, in the huge numerical figures and in other particulars. The more usual enumeration, based upon the surviving literature, is as follows (see the article “Jainism", by Professor Jacobi, in the Encyclopadiu of Religion and Ethics, vol. vii):
