Major Delauaine on tlie Srdwacs or Jains. 429 



Marabh^ti became Gaja (the elephant) in his next form j and Cajiita 

 died under his penance, becoming Girgitmar.* 



Ari-vind the Rdjd resolving on becoming a devotee, inquired of Bhadra 

 Achdrya about the Astdpad Tirfh; and in company with the Sddhus, 

 went on a pilgrimage thither. The travellers were drinking at a tank 

 when a furious elephant approached. This alarmed the Sddhus : but 

 when Ari-vind assumed the devotional posture, the elephant recognized 

 him and his own former state, and made obeisance to liim with his trunk. 

 Gaja was even much edified by the instructions which he received from the 

 Sddhus, and departed ; and Ari-vind continued his route on the pilgrimage. 

 Gaja aftenvards, having been disabled by sinking into a quick-sand, was- 

 attacked by his old enemy Girgitmar, whose bite on the head proved fatal to 

 the second birth of PARSWANAx'HA.t Girgitmar, on dying, descended into 

 the fifth hell ; while Gaja, on the contrary, became a god, and resided 

 among the gods seventeen sugars of years. Thus passed their third form. 



The fourth birth of Parswanat'ha was in the person of Kirana vega, son 

 of Rajd ViDYA dhara. On Kirana vega's becoming old, he placed his sont 

 on the throne and became a saint. He was in this state assailed by Camita, 

 under the form of a serpent, and destroyed ; but Kirana vega was restored 

 to the gods, and Camita entered the sixth hell. 



The soul of Marabhuti now travelled to the westward, into the Mahdb- 

 hidesW cshetra, to Subhangacara nagar, where Rdjd Vajranabhi resided ; but 

 becoming convinced that the world was all deceit, he took post as a saint 

 on tlie hill of Sugach, and was killed by Camita's arrow, who after many 

 transmigrations in hell had assumed the form of a bhilla. Vajranabhi be- 



niake notliing of, but a guardian angel. Time and circumstance will account for some little 

 variations ; but I can only conclude, that those representations and this narrative refer to the 

 same persons and events. Mr. Salt calls the figure Vishnu. 



♦ Perhaps a compound of Girgit, a lizard, and mar, a snake. Persian words are also used in 

 treating of the carinas. 



f Major Wilford speaks of Guzo Busaty, the Japanese Buddha, as derived from Gaja 

 P'asishta, or he who resides in the body of an elephant : And Gaja Vasishta is mentioned in As. 

 Res. (vol.x, p. 96) as the last of the ten incarnations of Buddha A Jain tract, too, (As. Res 

 vol.ix, p. liS) mentions that Jina in his last incarnation as GauTama, appeared in the shape 

 of a wliite elephant. We see the same tradition throughout, somewhat diversified. 



J As SuRADHfMAN, I conclude, the fifth form. 



II The country before noticed. 



