5S2 Mr. CoLEBROOKE on Inscriptions at Temples of the Jaina Sect. 



disciple Sudharma ; by whom, and by his followers, both Mahavira and his 

 predecessor Pars' wanat'ha have been venerated as deified saints (Jinas), 

 and are so worshipped by the sect to this day. 



A schism, however, seems to have taken place, after Mahavi'ra, whose 

 elder disciple, Indra bhiJti, also named Gautama swami, was by some of 

 his followers raised to the rank of a deified saint, under the synonymous 

 designation of Buddha ; (for Jina and Buddha bear the same meaning, 

 according to both Buddhists and Jainas). The preceding Buddha, accord- 

 ing to this branch of the sect, was Cas'yapa, who is not improbably the 

 same with Sramana Vardhamdna Mahurira, son (born of the wife) of 

 Siddhdrfha, a stiri/avansi prince of the Cas'yapa race. 



It is to be observed, without however attaching much weight to this 

 coincidence, that the name of Siddhart'ha is common to MAirAvfRA's 

 father and to Gautama buddha, whom I suppose to be the same witli the 

 Jina's disciple, Gautama swami. 



Tiie appellative Gautama is imqucstionably a patronymic (derived from 

 Gutama), however Sdcya sinha may have come by it, wliether as descendant 

 of that lineage, nearer or remoter, or for wliatever other cause. His pre- 

 decessor among Buddhas is, in like manner, designated by a patronymic 

 as above noticed, viz. Cds'yapa. 



The name of Gautama occurs also as an appellative in other instances 

 besides that of the sixtli Buddha, or of the twenty-fourth Jina\s eldest 

 disciple. One of the legislators of the Hindus is Gautama, whose aphorisms 

 of law are extant.* 



The gentile name of tlie last Buddha has prevailed in China and Japan, 

 where he is best known under the designation of Sdnja. His appellation 

 of Gautama remains current in countries bordering upon India. 



INSCRIPTION AT NAKHAUR. 



* Preface to two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance, p. x. 



