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the wife of Jamāli.

[MAY, 1873.

THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. His father and mother

frequently mentioned than the others, and their

died when he was 28 years of age; and he con

statues are more numerous.

tinued for two years afterwards with N a n di

Besides the Tirthankaras of the present (Aca sarpint) cycle of the world's duration, they reckon also twenty-four each of the past and future (Utsarpint) renovations or cycles. He machandra gives the names of the whole forty eight in the following lines:–

yard h an a he then departed to practise austerities, which he continued twelve and a

half years as a sage only in outward disguise: as a Digambara “he went robeless, and had no vessel but his hand.” Finally he became an Arhat, or Jina, being worthy of universal ado ration, omniscient, and all-seeing ; and at the

age of seventy-two years he became exempt from

all pain for ever. This is said to have occurred

Utsarpinyāmatitāyām chaturviñéatirarhatim |Kevaladnyani Nirvānī'Sigaro-tha'Mahāyaśāh || 5Vimalah"Sarvānubhūtih'Sridharo*Datta tirtha krit

at Pã w a puri or Pă pâ puri near Rāja

9Dāmodara”Sutejāśch"Svämyathol-Munisuvra

griha at the court of H a stip fila, three

tah || 13Sumatih 14Sivagati Śchaivº"Astågo tha"Nimis

and a half months before the close of the fourth

age or Dukhamá Sukhumá in the great period named awasarpíní. “On the night on which the adorable ascetic here was delivered from

pain, Got a ma In dra b h it i, the chief of his perfectly initiated disciples, had the bonds of affection by which he was tied to his preceptor cut asunder, and attained infinite, certain, and

supreme intelligence, and perception.” This event the Gujarat Jainas date 470 before the

varah |

17Anilol-Vašodhara khyah 19Kritārgho tha"Jine Švarah ||

• Suddhamatih”Sivakarah*Syandana Śchātha.”

Sampratih

Bhāvinyai tu Padmanābhah?Sūradevah"Supārś vakah ||

• Svayamprabha SchaïSarvānubhātir"Deva’sru

todayau

Sainwat of Vikrama, i. e. B. c. 526*; others ap

• Pedhilah"Pottilašehápii"Satakirti śchallSuvra

parently 512 years before Vikrama, or B. c.

tah || 14Amamo nish"Kashāyaścha nish!“Pulako tha

569+ ; the Jainas of Bengal 580, and those of Maisur 607 before Vikrama, ; but probably by

mistake for the Šaka era, which would bring these latter dates to B. c. 502 and 539 respectively. §

Adišwara, Śānti, Nemi, Pârşwa, and Vira, the first, sixteenth, and last three Tirthafikaras are

regarded as the principal jinus : they are more

nir"Mamah

-

10 Chitraguptah!7Samadhi śchal‘Sahvara Ścha!” Yasodharah ||

• Vijayoºl Malla Devauºchánantavirya Ścha2+

Bhadrakrit Evam sarvāvasarpinyutsarpinishu jinottamah ". -

THE LEGEND OF RISHYA SRISGA. BY V. N. NARASIMMIYENGAR, BENGALOR.

In one of the deepest and most romantic glens of the Maisür Malnād, formed by the buttresses of the Western Ghats, is nestled the shrine of

Sriñgeśvara of Kigga. The locality is extreme ly picturesque, and the habits and customs of the inhabitants are very primitive. The soil is rich, and, though thinly scattered, the peasants are by no means over-industrious. The produc

• Conf. Stevenson, Kalpa Sūtra, pp. 86, 90,91, 92, 96.

+ Prinsep's Useful Tables (1858), p. 166. I Kalpa Sūtra, pref. p. iii.

tions are among the most valuable, consisting of supāri, cardamoms, rice, &c. Territorially, the village of Kigga is in the Koppa Taluka of the Nagar Division. There is a tradition at taching to this shrine to the effect that no drought will ever approach within 12 gavadās" of the god. In seeking the origin of this tradi tion, the following legend has been gathered. Srisvāmi, and Sriastaga, and the affix ji is usually added to each. To most of the names of the Future Jinas the affix

is nithayanama, and the 6th, 7th, 15th, 21st and 22nd are respectively called Srijiyadeva, Srutodanātha, Mamanmu.

... § Weber would bring down this date to 348 or 349 B. c.

nātha, Sri Mallinatha, and Srijinadeva. See Briggs, Cities

Uber Qatr. Māhāt. p. 12.

• Abhidhána Chintámami, 58–70. In other lists, the

of Gujarashtra, p. 349.

• A gåvadá is popularly known to be about 12 English

8th, 11th, and 15th of the Past Age are styled Sridatta,

miles.