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6th. They consider it unlawful for a Sad’hu to ride on any animal or 
vehicle. 
7th. They deny that a man may not kill another, let the provocation be 
what it may. 
8th. They do not bore the ears of their novices, as the priests of other 
sects do. 
The D*hond’hius are a sect of Linca Jainas, which separated from the 
parent stock in S. 1724, A.D. 1668. ‘They entertain in general the same 
religious opinions with the Léncas. 
The D’hind’hias form several sects (some say eighteen),of which the follow- 
ing are the most considerable or best known. 
Ist. The Daryapira. The chief distinction marking these is that they 
omit the Naucar (the creed of the Jainas) when they pray or preach. 
2d. Dharmadirji. These repeat the Naucar ; the Sddhus of this sect, 
however, are said to eat food which has been cooked and kept for some 
time: this, most of the other Jainas will not, conceiving that after a certain 
period incipient life is generated in it. 
3d. The Térapant’ht. The principal distinction in the tenets of this sect 
is, that they do not, like other S’ravacas, redeem the lives of animals or 
insects from those about to kill them, as they conceive themselves in that 
case answerable for any injury those redeemed may occasion to animal life 
during the period of their existence so prolonged. 
4th. The Lowi ric’h no Parwar. 
5th. Milchandjt. 
6th. A’jaramarjt. 
7th. Calla Rich. 
The priests of the D’hind’hiis are the Sdd’hus of the Luncds. 
The Anchlit Guchci’ha. This sect took its rise in Samvat 1169, A.D. 
1113 : the founder was an A cuArya, named Arya Rac’nAt Sérr. It appears 
from their books that in the time of U'py6ram Siri (the thirty-fifth A’cuArya 
from ManAvira), who is supposed to have lived in the fourth century of 
the Samvat era, they were called the Vara Guchch’ha ; they were afterwards 
denominated the Sankésra Guchch’ha, from a village in the Pattan district ; 
and on their removing to the town of Nana Bira in G6dewar, they were 
called Ndnawal. A’rya Rac’nar Sunt, the reputed founder of the Anchlia 
sect, it is said was born in Samvat 1136, A.D. 1080. ‘This man, after he 
became a priest, took up his abode at Champanir or Powagurh, where he 
