Major Delaujine oji the Srdwacs or Jains. 417 



tliere will be twelve years* famine in Ujjui/an ; you must depart for the 

 south." The Yat'i, impressed with the truth of this, on his return to the 

 woods desired his twenty-four thousand disciples to prepare to travel to the 

 south, to avoid a famine, and the dissolution of their tribe. Thereupon 

 Bhadra-bahu and Chandra-gupta Acharya and twelve thousand disciples 

 went to the DaWtii, and performed their devotions in caverns.t Twelve 

 thousand disciples with Bisakha Acharya went in advance of Bhadra-bahu, 

 and twelve thousand Yatis remained in the forests of Ujjdyan. 



At length Bhadra-bahu left his cave to beg. Chandra-gupta, fearing his 

 guru would be much troubled, obtained an interview with Devi, and im- 

 plored her to prepare food for him. Bhadra, however, saw that it was 

 illusion, that a woman had prepared it, and he returned. He was next day 

 directed to a vUlage filled with Srdzcacs, but conjectured that the food was 

 still Devi's, and returned without eating. Thus having at length accom- 

 plished the eight carmas, he went to heaven. 



After a lapse of twelve years which Chandra-gupta passed in the worship 

 of Bhadra-bahu, he fell in with and joined the party of Bisakha Acharya ; 

 and much trouble appears to have arisen from those Yatis eating forbidden 

 food prepared by Devi, which was discovered by one of the party having 

 left his bundle of peacock's feathers behind ; he returned for it, and found 

 all that had appeared was an illusion. 



In the meanwhile the Yatis who remained in the forests of Ujjdyan suf- 

 fered greatly from famine. They had been promised food by the Srdwacs, 

 but many of their bellies were ripped open afterwards for the contents ; at 

 length so many Yatis were killed by the Srdu-acs, that the remainder were 

 admitted into the city. In consequence, however, of a woman miscarrying 

 from alarm at one of them, they were forced to wear half a white blanket. 



Wlien the disciples from the Dakhin returned to the forest of Ujjdyan, thev 

 were surprised to find the Yatis, whom they had left there, living in the city. 

 Two persons were dispatched, therefore, for their chief, and Bisakha re- 

 quired that they should atone for this dereliction. The town Yatis con- 



* I conceive this to be a legend relating to the drought mentioned (vol. ix. p. 128, As. Res.) 

 as having occurred in Malwa, in the reign of VicramAditya, when there Iiad been no rain for 

 twelve years. 



t This numerous body may probably have formed some of the excavations which still 



exist 



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