430 Major Delamawe oji the Srdu-acs or Jains. 



came the god Laltavg ;* and Camita, for his sins as a bliilla, now descended 

 to the seventh hell. 



Then the spirit of Marabiii^ti returned to Mahdhides cshetra into the 

 person of Vajuabahu t Rdjd, then to liis son named Suvaunabahu (whose 

 mother had fourteen dreams) : he conquered six Icliands, and became a 

 Cliacravarti rajd.t During a conversation with one of the Sddhus, Suvar- 

 NABAHU was apprised of his former state, and became a devotee. He read 

 tlie twelve angas with Damodara Aclidrya, and paid his devotions at twenty 

 tirfhs. He then took post in a cave in a hill,|| and again fell a sacrifice to 

 Camita, who on leaving the seventli hell had become a sinha (lion). 

 Suvarnabaiiu again took up his abode with the gods, and Camita dying as 

 a sinha, went back to the fourth hell. 



Camita, after taking many "forms of brutes in hell, bore afterwards the 

 same name as the orphan of a brahman. In this state he discovered that 

 austerities were the only way to acquire celebrity. He then establislied the 

 ceremony of the panch-agni, or five fires ; that is, exposure to four blazing 

 fires on four sides, and the sun above. Now, too, the soul of Marabhi^'Ti 

 left the gods, and in Jambii dwtpa (at Benares) was born in the house of 

 Rdjd AsusENA, a Siiryaransi :§ his mother was Bama-rani. This was a pair 

 renowned for their good qualities. Bama-uani, awaking from a dream, 

 found a snake entwined round her loins,^ and after a ten months' preg- 



* Suranabhi succeeds VajranAbhi in the list: perhaps the saint he personified bore that 

 name. 



f This corresponds with the eighth form, as CiiACiiAVAnTi. The title appears, however, 

 more applicable to the next. 



J This is a very convenient mode of adopting any great man as one's own : it is easy to put 

 a soul into him. 



II This seems to be the favourite situation of saints of yore, and jirohably their abode sug- 

 gested the idea of perpetuating the same by sculptured excavations. Thus, when their size 

 admits of it, they are represented generally in caves, or as under some sacred tree. 



§ The Teme Jata, a Burman history of one of the incarnations of Buddha, says a Bod/iisainn 

 was incarnate in the womb of Chandra DkvA, queen of a Itiija of Benares. (If 'aril.) 



^ This reminds me of the curious Saxon female idol, desi ribed in the Universal History as found 

 among seven others at JVIontmarillon in Poitou. She has two snakes entw ined round her legs and 

 loins, exactly in the same manner that Parswanat'ha is represented with Dharaxidhara 

 and PAdmavatI twisted about him. Of this Saxon idol nothing seems to be known, so they 

 set her down as the moon ; and the name of Chandra, above, is very apropos for them. The 

 twigs already mentioned as represented in the same way at EUora, Belligola, &-c. are, I imagine, 



