Major Delamaine on the Sravcacs or Jains. 419 



He then professed tlie Molsangi doctrine, and next travelled to Giiz- 

 zerat for the purpose of meditation, and ascended the hill of Girandr. 



Here the Digambar and Swetdmbar sects were collected for the worship of 

 Nema nath, whose image was at the top. But they quarrelled about pre- 

 cedence, and priority of religion and worship, which was not settled till a 

 voice from heaven adjudged it to the Digambar s. Thereon they worshipped 

 the image first, and the Swetdmbars followed, and Cunda Cund Achdrya 

 became highly celebrated as a Digambar* 



Besides those above-mentioned, from Digambar authority, the list from 

 the Siddhdnta Sdroddhdn contains the following additional names of sects. 

 As this, however, is a Swetdmbar account, that sect is placed first and the 

 Digambars follow ; then come the Chaudasiya, Furnamya, Bargachha, Khar- 

 taragach'ha, Tapdgachha, Maldhard, Achalya, Ajmeya, Agariya, Bhiisara, 

 Pujdrd, and Bhikhdhdri. Other names of tribes, as the Dhandiyas, &c. who 

 are Swetdmbars, are not mentioned in the Siddhdnta Sdroddhdn, and are 

 probably modern sects.t 



I shall merely make a short extract of another tradition, given by a 

 Marwar Yati from a Srdxoac book said to be written by Cunda Cund Achdrya, 

 regarding another sect, called the Budha-mati, as the veriest trifles may some- 

 times throw light on an obscure point. It relates that Bodha Kirti, a Yati, 

 who was the disciple of Vaisari Yatf, while begging alms in the city of 

 Paldsapur, suffered an indignity from a sudra, who had spat upon him, ob- 

 serving his miserable garments. Tliis had been resented by a banya, who 

 took upon himself to feed the Yati. The siidra had, indeed, offered to do 

 the same; but this was refused, as it was considered wrong for a Y'ati to eat 

 from the hands of a sudra. On another day, however, the Yati going his 

 rounds passed the same sudra, who imitating the banya, deceived the Yati 

 so that he ate from him, and took some food home, moreover, to his Guru, 

 whom he found at his devotions by the river side. The Guru replied nothing 



Vicram. See also in p. 123 what relates to the Mahabhatadicas, &c. and p. 38, where Muhaiides 

 khelr is again mentioned. And there seems some affinity between Subahu (p. 123) a companion 

 of Muhammed, and Suvrirnabahu, a form of Parswanath as Mnrabhuti. Muhanimed, in the same 

 page, is called a grandson of a King of India. 



♦ The Buddlia vilasn, however, is written by a Digambar Yati. 



f Mr. Ward says there are five sects o{ Jains. This limited number can, however, only apply 

 to a confined circle. 



