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BHAVATi did not dissent, and the Diva Sugantaca now informed him that 

 the period for his retirement had arrived, by which he would atone for the 

 sins of mankind. Acclamations of Jaya! Jaya! then proceeded from the 

 heavens. He knew, indeed, by intuition (urddhica jnydnd), that this was 

 really his period for retirement and devotion ; he therefore returned home, 

 gave away his goods and lands, and at a fortunate moment left his house to 

 the sound of music, and retired to the woods. There he was placed under 

 an dsoca tree,* parted with his ornaments and jewels, and spreading 

 wide his locks (after the manner of Yatis) witli his fingers, tore from 

 his head five handfids of hair ; then commenced his fast of three days, 

 during which he never even drank water ; and he continued in this state 

 seemingly unconscious and insensible. Indra took his clothes.t It was at the 

 first fahar of the morning on the tenth of Pausha-hadi (dark-half) in the 

 Visaifhdnacshatra, that he departed from his home ; and three hundred 

 artisans, who were householders, became devotees at the same time. Eighty- 

 six days elapsed during his state of seeming insensibility ; and there appeared 

 no hope of his living. Gods, men, and the brute creation wei-e exceedingly 

 afflicted ; they gathered round him, and by virtue thereof attained the know- 

 ledge of their former births. 



Parswanat'ha remained on the mountain of Cdli, in the devotional posi- 

 tion. On the approach of an elephant it became conscious of its former 

 existence. It recollected having been an ugly deformed son of a prad'hdn, 

 whom every body hated, and who therefore went to a sddhu on Cdli moun- 

 tain, with the intention of sacrificing himself, but the sddhu told him he could 

 never thus rid himself of mortahty. He then became a devotee, and per- 



I should conjecture it rather to be Nemi-Nat'ha ; and in Mr. Colebrooke's list of ttrt'hancar'is, 

 Nemi is stated to have died at Ujjinta, which is supposed to be the same with Giranai: 



This hill is equally sacred to Hindus as to Jains; and I am informed, that, among the various 

 temples there, one of Mahadeva's bears the strongest marks of antiquity. Would both have thus 

 remained had animosity reached the extent we are led to suppose ? Some particular cases of 

 excesses in this respect may have occurred, but in the temples I have had an opportunity of visit- 

 ing (and both kinds are generally found at the same place) no appearance of premature decay or 

 dilapidation is perceptible, but time seems to have dealt with both with an even band : one 

 parly may have occasionally appropriated the temple of a rival sect. 



* Jonesia Asoca. Roxb. 



f The gods took and shared tlie clothes of Buddha also on his leaving Gopa for the wil- 

 derness. 



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