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which so far from hitting him, came and stood near him : Purus hot tama then picking up the chakra in his turn, flung it at Mā dhu Kaitabh a who was slain by it; after which he became Adhipati of three Khandas, and ruling over the kingdom for some time, Purus hot tama on his dissolution, leaving his body, his soul went to hell, but Suprabha after the death of his brother being much grieved, went to Soma prabha Kevali, and received initiation from him, and acquiring the state of a Kevali, he obtained

[May, 1873.

being a water-jar (ghata); he was born at

Mithilä, and his Šāsana Devi was Dharana. pri y á; he was twenty-five poles high, lived 55,000 years, and was deified 6,584,000 years before the close of the fourth age. 20.

MUNIsUVRATA, SUVRATA, or MUNI, was son

of Sumitra by Padmä, of the Harivaiša

race, and of black complexion; he was born at Rājagriha; has a tortoise (kárma) for his cogni. zance, and Nara da t t à for his devi; his

15. DHARMA was son of Bhàn u by Su vrat ā , and was born at Ratnapuri : character

height was twenty poles, and his age 30,000 years. He died 1,184,000 years before the end of the fourth age. 21. NIMI was son of Vijay a by Viprä;

ized by the vajra or thunderbolt: his devi was

born at Mithilä, of the race of Ikshvāku;

K and arp a ; he was forty-five poles in sta ture, and lived 1,000,000 years: he was deified

figured with a golden complexion; having for his mark a blue water-lily (nilºtpala), and for

four sägaras after the fourteenth Jina.

his Šāsana, Gändh ári Devi. His stature

16. SANTI was the son of Viév a sen a by A chir à , born at Hastinápur; he has the antelope (mriga) for his cognizance. His Sāsana was Nirvân i ; he was forty poles in stature, lived 100,000 years, and died two sá. garas later than the preceding.t

was fifteen poles; his life 10,000 years; and his apotheosis took place, like the preceding eight

beatitude.

M fi dhu Ka it a b ha also after his death went to hell.”

Jinas, on Samet Sikhar or Mount Pârâvanātha, 584,000 years before the expiration of the fourth age.

22,

NEMI, or ARISHTANEMI, was the son of

17. KUNTHU was the son of Sãr a by Śrī,

King Sam u dra vijay a by his queen Śivā;

of the same race and complexion as the last, was also born at Hastināpur. His Šāsana was

with the conch (Sankha) for his symbol, and

Balá; his cognizance is a goat (chhága); his height was thirty-five poles, and his life 95,000 years. His nirvána is dated in the last palya of the fourth age.

of the Harivaāśa race, of black complexion,

Ambik a for his Šāsana Devi. The Kalpa Sūtra says he was born in Śrāvan, the first month of the rainy season, under the constellation Chaitra, at Söriyapuri, which Stevenson sup

18. ARA was the son of Sudar Š an a

said that he excelled in all kinds of athletic exer.

by Devi; his

cises and was of invincible strength. His cousin

mark

is

the

figure called Nandyāvarta;

poses to be Agra, but which is generally be lieved to have been a town in Käthiàwäd.

It is

Krish na was also of superhuman strength,

19. MALLI was son of Kumbh a by Prabh a v a ti; of the same race with the preceding, but of blue complexion; his mark

and was able to blow a large conch from which it was believed no other person could produce a blast. One day Neminātha saw it lying on the ground, and asking why that toy was lying there, he took it up and blew such a blast upon it as quite alarmed Krishna who began to enquire who it was that could blow upon his sankha f On finding it was his cousin, he became jealous of him as a rival, and accordingly directed his hundred gopis to excite amorous thoughts in Neminātha and shame him into marriage, think ing intercourse with women the only way to put down his strength. The gopis began to tease him and tell him as he was grown up to manhood

• Wilson, Mackenzie Coll., vol. I., pp. 148-152.

+ The life of this Jima is the object of a separate work

entitled Sánti Purána.-Colebrooke, Essays, ut sup p. 211 n., Asiat. Res. IX, p. 308.

he was of the same race

and complexion, and

born

at

the same place as the preceding; his Śāsana was Dhar in i : his stature was thirty poles, his life lasted 84,000 years, and his mir vána was 1,000 krôrs of years before the next Jina.