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THE TIRTHANKARAS.

MAY, 1873.]

the arts and sciences. Thus he taught drama tic poetry to Bharata, grammar to Brahmi, and arithmetic to Sundari. It may be noticed that Rishabha and his father and son occur in the Purānic lists, where N a bhi is the son of

Agni dra king of Jambudvipa son of Priya

Siddh ár th fi, is also of yellow complexion : he has an ape (plavaga) for his characteristic symbol; and Ká likä is the goddess who serves him. His stature was 300 poles, and his age 5,000,000 years; he was born at Ayo dhyā, and his nirvána took place on Sam et

vrata, king of Antarveda. The kings of

Sikh ar, ten lakhs of krôrs of ságaras of years

various other nations also derived their descent

after the preceding. 5. SUMATI, som$ of M e g h a and Mai g a lä, also of yellow complexion, has a curlew (krauſſcha) for his cognizance and M a hå k a li for his Devi. He was born at Ayodhyā, lived 4,000,000 years, and his moksha occurred also

from him.* The Māhātmya says Vimala vä h an a was the first of the ancestral fathers.

His son was Chak s h us h m fi fi a, father of

Abhichandra, whose son Prase najit a was the father of Maru de va, also called Nabhi ;

and at the end of the third spoke of the Avasar pini age, the Lord of the World, through his om nipotence, took birth in the womb of Nābhi's wife

at Samet Sikhar, nine lákhs of krôrs of ságaras

Marudevi, under the name of R is ha bha, or

V r is h a b has en a . It is Rishabha's image

Susi m fi ; born at Kausambhi, of the same race as the preceding, but of red complexion.

erected by Båhubali that imparts its peculiar

His mark is the lotos (abja), and his Devi is

after the fourth Jina.

6. PADMAPRABHA was son of Sridh a ra by

sanctity to Satruñjaya.t

Šy à ma . His height was 200 poles, and his

2. AJITANATHA was son of J it a § a tru by Vijay a ; of the same race and complexion as the first ; he was also a native of Ayödhyā, and has an elephant (gaja) for his cognizance, and

age 3,000,000 years. His death took place also on Samet Śikhar 90,000 krôrs of ságaras after

Ajit a balá as his Sāsana devi. His stature

by Prith vi, born at Benares, of the same line as the preceding and of golden colour; his

was 450 poles, and he lived 7,200,000 great years. His nirvâna took place on on S a met

the fifth Jina.

7. SUPAR$va was the son of Prat is h : h a

cognizance is the figure called

Śikhar or Mount Pär Švan äth a in West

Swastika'ſ in

ern Bengal, in the fourth age, when fifty lákhs of krórs of oceans of years t had elapsed out of

Sātya in Gujaráti. His Devi was $ antá, and he lived

the tenth krôr of krórs.

Sanskrit, and

2,000,000 years, his nirvâna on

3. SAMBHAVA was son of Jit a ri by Se nā: of the same race and complexion as Risha

bha; his cognizance a horse (asva); his Sāsa na—D urità ri; his height 400 poles: he lived

Samet Śikhar being dated 9,000 krôrs of ságaras after the preceding. 8.

CHANDRAPRABHA was son of Mah fi se n a

and attained moksha on Pârâvanātha hill, thirty

by Lak s h m an ā, and was born at Chandri pur; of the race of Ikshwāku, but of fair or white complexion : his sign is the moon (Saš), and

lákhs of krôrs of ságaras after Ajita. 4. ABHINANDANA,the son of Sam bar a by

his devi, Bhriku t is his height was 150 poles; and he lived 1,000,000 years: and his entrance

  • Prinsep, . Usef. Tab., p. 232 n., p. 233; also Wilson,

Vishnu Purána, pp. 162,163, and note on p. 164. + Weber, iiber das Qatruñjaya Māhātmyam, pp. 26, 27. 1. “In the second chapter, [of Hemächandra's Vocabu. lary,) which relates to the heavens and the gods, &c., the

theon, pp. 337, 338; Hodgson's Illustrations, p. 48, No.82. The sectaries of the mystic cross or Swastika, or ‘doc tors of reason,’ were the followers of the Pon religion, which

6,000,000 years; he was born at S fi w anta,

author, speaking of time, observes that it is distinguished into Avasarpini and Utsarpini, adding that the whole

period is completed by twenty kötis of kötis of ságaras, or 2,000,000,000,000,000 oceans of years.

I do not find

that he anywhere explains the space of time denominated

§ Conf. Stevenson, Kalpa Sätra, p. i.; Moor, Hindu Pan

prevailed in Tibet till the general introduction of Bud dhism in the ninth century. Their doctrine, named Bon ghi tsiós, has still professors in Kham yul or Lower Tibet.

Their founder was Chen rabs. Some believe the doctrine to have been introduced from China, and consider it identical with the discipline of Lao -tse. Its followers are called Tao sse in Chinese, and in the time of Fa Hian appear to

But I understand it to be an extravagant

have existed also in India. The T'ao szu named Ai is in

estimate of time, which would elapse before a vast cavity filled with chopped hairs could be emptied, at the rate of one piece of hair in a century: the time requisite to empty such

Sanskrit Tapasvi, and is stated to have visited the infant Buddha and drawn his horoscope. Conf. Remusat Foé Kuo& Ki, pp. 208, 230, 231; Laidlay, Pilgrimage of Fa Hian, pp. 300, 218; Asiat. Res. vol. ii. p. 383; Csoma de Körös, Dictionary of the Tibetan Language, pp. 36, 94;

ságara or ocean.

a cavity, measured by a yojana every way, is a palya; and

that repeated ten kötis of kºtis [or 1,000,000,000,000,000] of times is a ságara.”—Colebrooke, Essays (1837), Vol. II. p. 216; Asiat. Researches, Vol. IX, pp. 313, 314.

Sykes, Jour. Roy. Asiat. Soc. pp. 310,334; or Notes on the State of Ancient India, pp. 64 and 88.

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