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l^efore die death of tlie Gwrw, as he liad placed his 

 son Bmarata-Chacravarti in the government of 

 the state, he appointed one of his disciples, in liis 

 own room, to guide and instruct tlie people of this 

 religion, in following his instructions and laws ; he 

 gave liim the sacred name of Ajita*, and departed 

 from this world. 



Since that period, the following principal Tirtha- 

 cars, or pontiffs, were incarnate in this world at 

 different times. 



1 VrishabhanaVha, 2 Aj[ta, 3 Sambhava, 

 4 Abhinandaxa, 5 Sumati, 6 Padmaprabha, 

 / Supa'rsVa, 8 Chandrapra bha, 9 Pushpa-danta, 

 10 SiTALA, 11 Sre'ya'xsa, 1 2 Va'supu'jya, 13 Vf- 

 MALA, 14 Ananta, 15 D'harhia, \Q Sa'nti, 17 

 Cunt'hu, 18 Ara, ly Malli, 20 Munisuvrata, 

 21 Nami, 22 Ne'mi, 23 Pa'rs'wa, 24 Vard'ha- 



MANA. 



These were the first Gurus, or pontiffs of this re- 

 ligion, who, as twenty-four incarnations of their first 

 Guru, appeared in the heginning of the present age, 

 or Cali-yuga. 



Up to the heginning of the Cali-yuga, the world 

 was ruled, at twelve different times, by twelve Nara 

 Chacravartis^ or monarchs, among whom are, 1 Bha- 

 RATA, 2 Sa'gara, 3 Mag'havan, 4 Sanatcuma'ra, 

 5 'Sa'nti, 6 Cunt'hu, 7 Arasubhu'ma f , 8 Jaya- 

 SENA, 9 Harishe'na, 10 Brahmedatta. These 

 sovereigns of the world are said to have been Jains. 



* The Jainn at Sravana Belligola say, that Ajita did not appear 

 as Guru, until many years after the death of the iixsXTirthuru. C. M. 

 t Should be 7 Ara, 8 Subhu'ma, 9 Padma, 10 Harishe'na, 

 11 Java, 12 Brahmedatta. H. T. C. 

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