29 S TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



Here Schopenhauer and the Jains differ somewhat 

 from the orthodox oriental Budhists, because, for the 

 most part, the latter regard the individual soul as re- 

 maining one through its various changes, while the 

 former speak rather of one kind of stuff which is 

 constantly manifesting itself in the shape of men and 

 animals. It is of no importance to the conclusion, 

 however, how long the insignificant particles of this 

 fathomless sea of misery may retain a separate exist- 

 ence, so long as the sea is there heaving in its agony ; 

 and though Mr Swinburne was probably not thinking 

 of Budhism Avhen he wrote these lines, yet they well 

 express a primary Biidhistic idea : 



" Thy life shall not cease though thou doff it ; 



Thou shalt live until evil be slain, 

 And good shall die first, says thy Prophet, 



Our Lady of Pain ! " 



I do not propose, however, either to refute or sup- 

 port Budhism, but merely to indicate where we are 

 on Girnar. Anything approaching to a discussion 

 of this subject would be unsuitable to these pages, 

 and would require going into very abstruse matters. 

 I only wish to afford a rough idea of Jainism ; and 

 it may be impossible to do so fairly without suggest- 

 ing that the Budhism from which it corrupted, which 

 even in this the day of its decadence numbers more 

 than a half of the human race among its nominal 

 adherents, which commands more complete devotion 

 to its most trying prescripts in a far larger number of 



