4)28 Major Delamaine on the Srdrvacs or Jains. 



The names of the ten forms of Parswanat'ha are Mahabhuti, Gaja, 

 Deva, Kiuanavega, Surabhiman, Vajranabhi, Suranabhi, Chakravarti, 

 SuvARNABAHU, and Parswanat'ha, which are here detailed from the Calpa 

 sutra. The account is childish enough, and parts, perhaps, introduced by 

 the Yatis to suit the taste of their audience. A Bhilla (one of the foes of 

 Parswanat'ha) is an essential character on the Matuca stage.* 



Some notes from the Charitra-PdrswandCha, written by Briddha Tajja- 

 Gachha in Sam vat 1654, are included in the following relation. 



History of Parswanat'ha. 



BHADRA-BAHut Muni wfitcs, that there lived a Rdjd in Potampur named 

 Ari-vind. He had two piirohitas, or family priests, one named Camita and 

 tiie other MarabhIjti : they were brothers ; the elder, Camita, had a wife 

 named Varuna, and the name of the other's wife was VASUDRA.t The 

 beauty of Vasudra attracted the attention of Camita, which gave great con- 

 cern to Marabhuti, that he did not fail to express. At length .he com- 

 plained to the Rdjd, and Camita was expelled the city. There then he 

 stood outside, holding up in his hands a large fragment of rock, until one 

 day his brother came to see him at his devotions, as he supposed, and ap- 

 proached him for the purpose of kissing his feet : Camita seized this 

 opportunity, and casting the rock on his brother's head, destroyed him, and 

 thus terminated the first Janma or birth.§ 



Major Wilford (As. Res., vol. xi, p. 59) says Buddha is Vishnu. The same writer quotes 

 also from a Jain work, that Salivahan is a form of Jinn. 



* The detail does not exactly agree with the above ten forms, which accounts, perhaps, for its 

 not corresponding in every respect with the Salsette figures before noticed. 



f 1 suppose this is the same Bhadra-bahu who led the Yatis to i\\eDahhin and died there, 

 and who interpreted the dreams of Chandragupta. 



J These marriages do not savour of Jain celibacy; but all the allusions are brahminical, ex- 

 cepting in the last form. 



§ I was struck on looking over Mr. Salt's representations of figures at the Kenera caves, (in 

 Bomb. Trans, vol. I.) with the resemblance between these metamorphoses and the groupes re- 

 presented there. I allude to the figure, p. 49, with the small mythological pieces on each side. 

 In these the position of Camita casting the rock on his brother's head is very exactly repre- 

 sented ; and I think the forms of the Sinha, snake, or dragon, and the Raksha and Gaja attacking 

 the Sadhus, may be as distinctly traced. The third figure that constantly hovers near I can 



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