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intention of going to any particular place; eating certain fruits with 

 seeds, unripe grain, &c. ; following any profession requiring the aid of fire, 

 as goldsmith, distiller, dealer in fried grain, brasier, smith, or wheelwright ; 

 pulling blossoms ; to dam a running stream ; to sell ground grain, musk, 

 ivory, shells, agallochum, red arsenic, lack, incUgo, orpiment, curds, boiled 

 butter, oil, camels', asses', cows' hair or wool, iron, or opium ; working at mills; 

 castrating animals ; eating fermented food ; digging wells ; building bridges; 

 confining dogs and peacocks ; thinking of commerce or speaking to others, 

 in time of prayer ; sitting on unclean ground ; being frightened from one's 

 position in time of prayer ; sending on gossiping errands ; ordering rich fur- 

 niture ; forcing attention to one's self; thinking of sensual pleasures while 

 using the name of the deity ; letting priests go away unrewarded ; leaving 

 prepared food uncovered; feeding one's self under the name of others ; giving 

 alms from ostentation ; delaying food to a hungry person. These are noted 

 as wi-itten by Anand Srchvac in {bhdkhd) the vernacular tongue, by order of 

 Mahavira Swami. 



The observance of these restrictions only applies to such as have become 

 devotees. Some engage with their Yatis to keep the vows for a certain 

 period only (a month, a year, &c.) by way of gradual initiation, or for tlie 

 expiation of crime. 



The eternal existence of the world, including gods and men, is generally 

 understood to form a part of the Jain system, and is adhered to in a great 

 measure by the Srdwacs ; though of man they entertain a notion, that four- 

 teen pairs, from a former seed, in the reproduction of worlds sprang into 

 existence from a cave in a mountain. They were of a very diminutive size, 

 being only one cubit and a half high. These pairs, male and female, which 

 were called Yiigaliyas, produced Nabhi Raja and Mora Dlvi. They were 

 twins ; and the first of a single birth from the last pair was Rishabha DtVA. 

 These Yugaliyas appear, however, to have thriven amazingly, for Rishabha 

 DtvA, their first Tirt'hancara, attained a height of two thousand cubits. 

 The books of tlie Srdzcacs generally contain many pictures ; and in that 

 which mentions the yugaliijas is a representation of the fourteen couples 

 in a row at the top. 



Much that follows is fiom Srdu^ac authorities ; but is more applicable to 

 the earlier Jains, from whom they derive the ground-work of their faitli, 

 though it is apparently much disfigured by time and circumstance. 



However nearly the Jains were allied to the Hindu faith originally, they 



