43G Major Delamaine on the Srdwacs or Jahu. 



Chayidrama sanyoga,* after the second ^a/zar of night, upon Samet Sikharaf 

 beneath a chiro7iji tree,1: he obtained mucti (mdcsha) or finkl absorption. ll 



Of the Carmas. 



The Carmas, as detailed to me, appear to define the powers and dis- 

 positions of the mind and senses in all situations, and the duration of 

 punishment or reward, according to the employment of them, or the sub- 

 jection in which they may have been held. In treating of them, the virtue 

 of apathy or stoical indifference is strongly insisted on : the names, too, of 

 different parts of the body are included. 



The Diga7nbaras divide the eight carmas into one luuidred and forty-eight 

 pracritis or natures, and the Swelambaras into one hundred and fifty-eiglit. 



The first crtnKrt is called Jyndnavarni, and is divided into five natures, § 

 including the power of concealing wisdom, by which, though dark without, 

 imlimited light and knowledge are attained within ; as closing the eye-lids 

 conceal yet strengthen the powers of sight. The non-attainment of this 

 faculty is visited by a residence on earth of tliirty cror of sdgaropamas. 



There are three hundred and sixty-six different modes in which the soul, 

 desirous of the fulfilment of religion, may be obstructed by the body. The 

 degrees of intellect are described as consisting in the knowledge of what 

 passes five cos round, or five hundred, or in the three (Ideas) worlds. The 

 knowledge, too, of the hearts of others is necessary to tirt'hancaras from 

 their birth. In the fourteen Ideas is comprised the attribute of knowing 

 internally the past and the future. 



The second earma, called Darsana varni, has nine principal natures on the 



* Conjunction of the moon with the sixteenth asterisra. 



f Mr. Colebrooke's note, As. Res. v. ix, p. 310, alludes to this place. He says, " Samet-sikhara, 

 " called in Major Rennell's map Parsonat'li, is situated among the hills between Behar and 

 " Bengal. Its holiness is great in the estimation of the Jains, and it is said to be visited by 

 " pilgrims from the remotest provinces of India." 



J Chironjia Sapida. Roxb. 



II As the last form coincides with the short notice of PArswanat'ha given by Mr. Colebrooke 

 (As. Res. vol. ix, p. 309.) I conclude some dependence may be placed en its correctness. 



§ These have also each a separate name, and are again subdivided, so that it would be tedious 

 to enumerate them. 



