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TULSI-PRAJNA, Jan.-March, 1992
Voocharpereea and Avasarpereea, which revolve constantly, and each' of which contains six inferior divisions. The first period, Avasar. pereea, the second great division is termed shoocama, contains likewise four inferior divisions or ages, during which the fertility of the earth and human stature and human virtues gradually decreased till the beginning of the fourth age, when mankind were reduced to miserable savages. At this period Prooshbanund Teartaroo was incarnated to teach the knowledge of good and evil, and if possible, to arrange the duties and occupations of men and to instruct them to acquire the advantages of earth and heaven.
He divided mankind into four great classes, Brahmins, Chutress, Veasyas, and Soodras, after whom came the Pariars. He composed many books in the Sanscrit language, amongst which is the Amra Lingham.
The original languages, which the Jeynes used, were the Sanscrit and Pracrit, but the greater part of their ancient books are, at present, written in the ancient caniara character.
Their modern Pagodas were founded by Chanover Daroy, the prime minister of Rajah Muttu Jeyne, king of Madura. In their chronologies they say, that after the reigns of the Jeyne sovereigns, there reigned the Chotturoos or Rajahs, of the chuttree caste, the Ballaroos, or Ballies, until the reign of Begul Rajah, when the Dekhan was conquered by the modern Brahmins. The Dekhan, after this, remained under the authority of the Rajah of Bijanugur or Worongola, until the Mahomedans, in their turn, attacked and conquered it."
* Reproduced from the 'Researches on the Tenets and Doctrines
of the Jeynes and Boodhists' by Lient, Col, William Francklin, London, 1827, Appendix-II P. 210-213.
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