260 ACCOUNT or 



Before the departure of Vrishabiiana't'iia Tiii- 

 t'hacar, his wives were Asa svATi and Sunandadevi;. 

 by the former he had a sony named Bhakata Cha- 

 cra VARTi ; and by the latter Gomate'sVara Swa'wi. 

 The eldest,. Bharata Chacravarti, ruled over the 

 whok of the six divisions of the earth, and named it 

 Bharatacshetra ; from that period the earth bears his 

 name. The metropolis of this king was Ayknufci 

 (of Oude). After he had ruled for a considerable 

 time, he appointed his younger brother, Gomate's'- 

 wara SwAMf, to the government. Then abandon- 

 ing the (Carma) actions or affections of mankind, he 

 obtained the fruits of his sacred contemplation, antt 

 proceeded to MoGshttj or heavenly salvation, 



GomatesVara SwA'Mi, after he was charged with 

 the government, ruled for a considerable time, in a 

 town named Padmana'bh-pur ; in the end,^ he attained 

 (Nirvana) beatitude in heaven, and departed thither. 

 Since his death, the people worship him, in all re- 

 spects, as Jinesxvara^ or God. From that period, twenty- 

 four TIrt'iiacars have passed, during the age oi* 

 Avasarpini, up to the end of the Dzcapara-;guga. 



According to the Jains, there were born other 

 twenty-four Tirfhacars in the world, during the first 

 age, besides the twenty-four from the birth of 

 VRi'sifABUANAVHA SwAMi. Tlic namcs of the Tir- 

 thacars of yltitacala or past times, are as follow, 



1 NiRMA'NA*, 12 Sa'GARA, 3 JMaHA'n A TH A |, 4 VlMA- 

 LAHPRAriHAj, 5 SriDHARA^, G SuDANTAJj, 7 AmALA- 

 PRABHA 5[, SUdARA**, 9 AnGIRA f f^ 10 SuMATT, 



* NiRVANi, in He'machandra's vocabulary, f Mahay asas, 

 H. I ViMALA, H. § Tlie 5th is Sarva'nubhu'ti, and Ollr 

 SrjdhaKa, according to Hf/machandra. || Datta, H. H Un- 

 noticed by He'machandra. ** Da'modara, H. ff Unnoticed by 

 He'machandra, who stales, pih SuTEJA, 10th Swa'mi, aadi 



lltb MUNISUVRATA. 



