Mr. CoLEBROOKE Qu Inscriptions at Temples of the Jaina Sect. 5Q3 



" In the year 1686 Samvat, on the 15th day of Vaisdc'ha sudi, the lotus 

 of Gautama swami's feet was here placed by Nihalo, mother of T'ha 

 {Thaccur), Sangrama-Govardhana dasa, son of Tha. Tulasi dasa, son 

 of T'lia. ViMALA dasa, of the race of Chopard and lineage of \_Bharata 

 ChacravartPs'] prime councillor : the fortunate Jina-raja suri, the ve- 

 nerable guide of the great C/iaratara tribe, being present." 



The same pious family, which is here recorded for erecting, or more 

 probably restoring, the representation of Gautama swami's feetatiVa/i7/fl!/r, 

 is in like manner commemorated by three inscriptions, bearing date six 

 years later (liz. 1692 Samvat),* for the like pious office of erecting images 

 of the feet of Mahavira and of his eleven disciples, at Pdn'apuri, which, 

 or its vicinity, is in those inscriptions stated to be the site of that saint's 

 extinction {iiirvdna) or translatioi: to bliss. 



The same names recur, with those of many other persons, inhabitants 

 (as this family was) of the town of Bihdr, where a numerous congregation 

 of Jainas seems to have then dwelt ; and with the same additions and 

 designations more fully set forth : whence it appears, that the designation 

 of " descendant of a prime councillor" bears reference to a supposed 

 descent from the prime minister of the universal or paramoimt sovereign, 

 Bharata, son of the first Jtna Rishabha. 



Sangrama and Govardhana, here joined as an appellation of one person, 

 are in those inscriptions separated as names of two brothers, sons of Tulasi 

 DASA and his wife Nihalo. In other respects, the inscriptions confirm and 

 explain each other.t 



Description of Temples of the Jainas in South Bihar and Bhagalpiir, by 

 Dr. F. BucuA^TAN Hamilton, M.R.A.S. 

 The sect of Jain has in the division of Nawddd in South Bihar two 

 places of pilgrimage. One is a tank named Nakhaur, about a mile and a 

 half north from Nawddd, and which is of no great size, extending in its 

 greatest lenj^th from east to west. It is choked with weeds, especially 

 the nelumbium. The temple is on a small square island covered with a 

 terrace of brick, and is a neat but inconsiderable building, covered 



* The largest of tliosc inscriptions names likewise the reigning Emperor, SnAii Jeiian. 

 t Copies of those at I^aialjiuri were not taken in fac-similc, but arc merely transcripts. 



