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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,

into moksha or beatitude, took place 900 krórs of ságaras later than the seventh Tirthaikara. 9. PUSHPADANTA, also named Suvida, was the son of Supriya” by Rämä : he was born at Kakendrapuri, of the same race and com plexion with the last ; his mark is a makara or crocodile, and his Devi is Su tä raka .

His

stature was 100 poles, and his life lasted 200,000

years. He was deified on Samet Sikhar ninety krôrs of ságaras after Chandraprabhā.

10. SirALA, the son of Dridh a rath a by N and ā,

was

born at

Bhadalpur; of the same race, and with a golden com

plexion: his sign isthe mark

called Srivatsa, and his Sāsanadevi–A Šok fi. His stature was ninety poles, and his life 100,000 great

years; his deification on Samet Śikhar dates nine krórs of ságaras later than the preceding.

11. SREYANSA, or SRI ANSANāTHA, was the son of Wish n u by W i s h m fi ; of the same race and complexion, born in Sindh, with a rhinoceros

(khadgi) for his cognizance. His devi was Mānavi. He was eighty poles in stature, and

lived 8,400,000 common years, dying at Samet Sikhar more than a hundred ságaras of years

[MAY,

1873.

after the preceding. The following translation

from the Chámunda Rāya Purána respecting him may be given as a specimen of the legend ary lives of these hierarchs:— “Padmar at h a the Arusu of Arish ta

pura, of Air à v at a Kshetra, in the Mu d an a M and ira (or Eastern Meru) in the

Dh at a Kish and a D vipa, receiying reli gious instructions fromSv a yam prabhā Jin a , he became disgusted with the world, and trans ferring the kingdom to his son Gh an a rath a , he adopted a penitential life, read through the eleven Angas, and contemplated the sixteen Bhā vanas or meditations, he acquired the quality fit ting him for becoming a Tirthankar: pursuing his religious penance, he quitted his body, and was born in the Achyuta Kalpa in the Pushpottara Vimdna as Achyu t e n dra, with a life of twen ty-two sagaras, of the stature of thirty cubits, of subdued appetites, perfectly contented with his fate, with a knowledge penetrating as far as to the seventh lower world, he was enjoying the hap piness of that world. Afterwards Jay as y á m a Devi, the consort of Sim has en a Mahār āja, of the Kasya p a Go tra, of the lineage of Ikshvāku, the ruler of Ayodhyā pura, in the Bhar at Ks he tra of Jamb u dvipa, on the 1st day of the month Kår tika, under the star Rev a

before the end of the fourth age. 12. VäsäPUJYA or VASUPāDYA, or WASUPúJYA

ti, about break of day, saw the sixteen dreams, and also that of the elephant, entering in at her mouth, which she mentioned to her consort, who

SväMI was son of V as up ſı jya by Jay fi : born at Champapuri, of the same race, with a red

was in Avadijnyāni, and getting the interpreta tions of them from him, she was happy, and

complexion, having a buffalo (mahisha) for his

Saud her men dra performing the happy cere mony of descending from heaven on earth, Ach yu ten dra became impregnated in the womb of the Queen. At that time on the last palla of ten stigaras of the term of Vim a la Ki r t t a kar,

mark, and Chan dà for his devi.

He was

seventy poles high, lived 7,200,000 years, and attained nirvána at Champapuri fifty-four sā garas after the eleventh Jina.

13.

WIMALA was son of Krit a v arm an by

Syā m fi, was born at Kumpalapuri; of the same race and of yellow complexion. He has a boar (śākara) for his characteristic, and Vid it à was his devi ; he was sixty poles high, lived 6,000,000 years, and was deified on Samet Ši khar thirty stigaras later than the twelfth Jina. 14.

when virtue had faded one-third, he was born on

the 12th of the dark half of the month Jyeshta, under the star Revati, in the Pushpa Yuga, and saw D her men dra performing the happy worship of being born in the world, and as the new-born infant was born with

A n ant a

D n y ána, or illimitable wisdom, he called him A n ant a Tirth a fi kar, and returned to his resi dence: his life was to continue for three millions of

ANANTA, or ANANTAJITA, was son of

His sign is a falcon

years, his stature 100 cubits, and his colour golden : his childhood comprised a period of seven hundred and fifty thousand years: his reign continued for

(Syena); his Šāsana Devi was A i ku şā; his

fifteen hundred thousand, after which on a certain

height was fifty poles, the length of his life 3,000,000 years, and his death nine sdgaras

life would be dissolved in the same manner, he be

Sii has en a by Suy a Śā or Jay as y á m fi, and born at Ayodhyā.

day seeing a meteor fall, and considering that this

• So Colebrooke, -Hemachandra has Sugriva, - Abhidhana Chintánani, 37 (ed. Boehtlingk and Rieu), p. 7.