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Notes vens in Jain mythology; and in tho downward direct. ion it reached the staroyar hell. Oar earth in Jainism is called Taght great, there being six other earths; each grat has numerous seas and continents, 198, our aig being called FF 19.
11 76. ifemate r ia, the first one of Hetalt, is here said to have acquired a concentrated strong fiory force as a reward of his penance. This foroo is capable of burning objects situated at a long distance (faye) though it is compressed (tiga) in his body. For SAT seo above, Se0,74. goggui affinare froi, uninterrupted ascetic practice of taking only the sixth meal and dropping the romining five moals. For an ordinary man only two meals a day are pormitted, but gossa was observing fast for two days and a half and took his meals in the afternoon of the third day; ho conti. nued the practice to take only one meal in throu days.
17. 77. SCHUTTUrith, at the time of breaking his fast (खमण, क्षपण and not क्षमण as Dr. Hoernle takes it) at the sixth meal, giftat means g597108T4T and is thus equal to a period of three hourg. For deails REB Com, on the GTITETA . 1919 is a small piece of cloth about three inches square whioh tho Jain monks frequently hold before their mouth, CHEETOT is the roading that Dr. Hoernle gives; the mss. usually read घरसमुद्राणस्स, probably an equivalent of गृहसमुदाय, a large number of houses. . I think our expression is an equiva. lont of TEHYÈT, visit to houses in consecutive order, without dropping any house in the middle, which prac
