414 Major Delamaine on the Srdwacs or Jains. 



not scruple, however, to employ the services of the regular Brahmans as 

 calculators of nativities and at marriages, &c. in the absence of fit persons 

 of their own class. 



The Srdwacs seem to have thriven, and survived, in useful occupation, 

 the wreck of their ancient faith. Some, probably all the Jaiii tem- 

 ples in Mandu and the neighbourhood, were built at the expense of the 

 Srdwacs. Several bear inscriptions two or three hundred years old, in 

 which the founders of the temples always detail their pedigree, and cele- 

 brate how scrupulously they observed the twelve vr-atas. I have seen no 

 inscriptions upon the pedestals of either sitting or standing figures older 

 than the twelfth century of the Samvat. 



Besides the Jain distinction of Digambar and Swetdmbar, the Srdwacs 

 more or less differ, as Oswdls, Faisj/aparrwdrs, HSmars, Khadenears* &c., 

 and through connecting sects coalesce with the orthodox Hindus.! The 

 inscription at Beld/cult (As. Res. Vol. ix, p. 270), shews how slight a 

 difference existed in reality between them in the fourteenth century of 

 our era. 



Some, I understand, as the Oswdls, eat at night, contrary to the Jain 

 usage ; and so much do the Srdwacs differ among themselves, that several 

 sects will not intermarry. 



The folloAving, detailed in the Buddha-vildsa, appertain to the Banya 

 class. 



Of the Draver Sect. 



t 



CuNDA CuND 'AcHARYA ll lived in Samvat 53(^. His principal disciple, 

 BAjra bande, separated from him, asserting the entire consistency of agri- 

 culture trade, particular kinds of bathing, with the Jain faith. 



Of the Japalya Sect. 

 In Samvat 700, Culis Muni wrote a new sdstra. He confirmed all 



• Probably the same with the C'handewals. As. Res. ix, 291. — H. T. C. 

 -)■ Noticed, too, in Sir John Malcolm's report. 



I Belligola, according to Major Mackenzie. 



II He seems to be a noted person in the Sraxvac annals. His name appears again in other 

 traditions as living in Samvat 749 : one, or perhaps both, wrong — J. D. 



He is named in the list of Gunis of Belligola. As. Res. ix, 265. — H. T. C. 



