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large images, particularly that in the Jéhériwara, where are also many 
monastaries of Séw'ras or Jaina priests, called by them Pédsdl. 
In the house of Ananp sf LALcuanp, a sarraf or banker, is the represen- 
tation of a mountain in the east country called Samdtsic’har,* considered to 
be of great sanctity, and a place of pilgrimage for the Jainas ; this is covered 
with figures of men and animals, and a number of S'rdvacas from Stirat and 
other places, who cannot make a journey to the mountain itself, pay their 
devotions to its representative here. 
The Tir? hancaras are placed in the order of their succession, but I believe 
Risuas’HavévA the first, and MaunAvira the last, are regarded with more 
devotion than the rest. PArs’wanAt’Ha and Nimnar’na are also greatly 
revered. 
The Hindi gods, although some of them, as the Divas, CaucA, &c., are 
worshipped by the Jainas, are yet all included, by their learned men, among 
the inferior divinities denominated Vintrice (2?) and Vanvintrice (?) Dévatd, 
as the Paisdcha, Bhita, Yacsha, Racshasa, Cinnara, Cimpurusha, &c. &c. 
It is stated in some works I have read, and by the Jainas with whom I 
have conversed on the subject, that the subterraneous temples in Gujerat 
owe their origin to the invasion of Gujerat and persecution of the Hindus 
by the Musalmans. 
The Jainas regard the Buddhists as schismatics, but do not appear to 
entertain any peculiar dislike to them. There are no Buddhists that I am 
aware of in this part of the country. 
* The sanctity of Samdtsic’har, as well as Girnar and P4éli-thanna, &c. arises from their 
having been the mountains on which the deification of their Tirt’hancaras, Apna’T’HA, Nim- 
NA’T’HA, &c. occurred. 
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