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that foftn issued, or rather from which it was elon- 

 gated ; for they suppose the communication not to 

 have been interrupted. 



The soul is never completely separated from mat- 

 ter, until it obtain a final release from corporeal 

 sufferance, by deification, through a perfect disen- 

 gagement from good and evil, in the person of a 

 beatified saint. Interm.ediately it receives retribu- 

 tion for the benefits or injuries ascribable to it in its 

 actual or precedent state, according to a strict prin- 

 ciple of retaliation, receiving pleasure or pain from 

 the same individual, who, in a present or former 

 state, was either benefited or aggrieved. 



Major MAcKENizrE's information confirms that, 

 which I had also received, concerning the distribu- 

 tion of these sectaries into clergy and laity. In 

 Hindustan the Jainas are usually called Syauras ; but 

 distinguish themselves into ^Sravacas and Yatis. The 

 laity (termed Srdvaca) includes persons of various 

 tribes, as indeed is the case with Hindus of other 

 sects: but, on this side of India, the Jainas 'dve mostly 

 of the Vaisya class *. The orthodox Hindus have a 

 secular, as well as a regular, clergy : a Brdhman'a, 

 following the practice of oihciating at the ceremonies 

 of his religion, without quitting the order of a house- 

 holder, may be considered as belonging to the secu- 

 lar clergy; one who follows a worldly profession, 

 (that of husbandry for example,) appertains to the 

 laity; and so do people of other tribes: but persons, 

 who have passed into the several orders of devotion, 

 may be reckoned to constitute the regular clergy. 

 The Jainas have, in like manner, priests who have 

 entered into an order of devotion ; and also employ 



*l understand that their FfljV_y/!7 class includes eight- -four tribes : 

 of whom the most common are those denominated O'swdt, Agarwitl, 

 Pariwh; and C'handew^l, 



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