________________ Isibhasiyaim : 241 adyam adhyayanam satyabhidham ketyasivam yayau(19) iti Navama Narada-Prsi-sambandhah. Here, the first section erroneously gets the name Satya, corresponding to the original (Sacca) a further proof of the insecurity of the tradition. What is reported about Naraya here, is a main feature of the narration, while in other cases, as will be shown in the course of our examination, our text, if a relation can be proved with the present expedients, has something by far more accidental as its starting point. With this it can be compared that from the mouth of Vaddhamana (29), i.e. Mahavira, of his adversary Mamkhaliputta (11) i.e. Gosala Maskariputra, and of his pathmaker Pasa (31) i.e. Parsva, we learn nothing particularly characteristic of them. Every other Jaina Rsi, of our textcould have said the same, only in the case of Pasa, the monk is called a caujjamaa niantha. That the three have been placed at all in the row of the Rsis, is very strange. For the stories, the already mentioned Isimandala and its commentary, the Rsimandalavrtti, among others, supply the basis of the criticism referred to. Asiya Davila (3), originally of course Asita Devala, who, however, is without any relation to the life of the Buddha, with the Jainas, forms a direct connection with our text in Isim. 125. If it is said there: 'bhaviyavvam bho khalu savva-kama-viraena' eyam ajjhayanam bhasittu Devilasuya-rayarisi siva-suham patto. this cannot be separated from the Rsi-word bhaviyavvam khalu bho savvalevovaratenam here. There is no allusion to the fact that King Devilasuta-a matter which is not quite unimportant nearly married his own daughter, Suy. 1, 3, 4, 3 we read about Asila and (?) Devila; Silanka makes two persons of our Rsi, just as there also exists an Asiyakaha. Vagalaciri (Vakkalaciri) ugga-tava (6) is known from Hemacandraa's Parisistaparvan. Not decisive worldly experiences of this Jinistic Rsyasonga however, nor his obtaining pratyekabuddha-ship have been preserved by our text, but it appears that only his childhood, when he lived in the woods like
