THE JAINS. S\7 



Vdrhaspatya, or Nastica ; and 6tb. Chh'i'i'ica, or 

 Lbcaifata, Tlie two last are reputed atheistical, as 

 denying a future state and a providence. If those 

 be omitted, and the two J////2r/y^my inserted, we have 

 the six schemes of Philosophy familiar to the Indian 

 circle of the sciences. 



The fourth chapter of He'imachandra's vocabu- 

 lary relates to earth and animals. Here the author 

 mentions the distinctions of countries which appear 

 to be adopted by the Jainas ; viz. the reo-ions (Var- 

 >^ha) named B/iarafa, Airavata, and Vidiha, to which 

 he adds Guru; noticing also other distinctions fami- 

 liar to the Himhis of other sects, but explaining 

 some of them according to the ideas of the Jainas. 

 ' Aryavarta,' he observes, * is the native land of 

 Jinas, Chacris, and Ardcrhachacris, situated between 

 the Vind'hya and Himadri mountains.' This remark 

 confines the theatre of Jaina history, religious and 

 heroic, within the limits of Hindustan proper. 



A passage, in Bha'scara's treatise on the sphere, 

 will suggest further observations concerning the opi- 

 nions of the Jainas, on the divisions of the earth. 

 Having noticed, for the purpose of confuting it, a 

 notion maintained by the Bauddlias, (whom some of 

 the commentators, as usual among orthodox Hindus, 

 confound with the Jainas ;) respecting the descent 

 or fall of the earth in space ; he says * ' the naked 

 sectaries and the rest alfirnl, that two suns, two 

 moons, and two sets of stars, appear alternately : 

 against them I allege this reasoning. How absurd is 

 the notion which you have formed of duplicate suns, 

 moons, and stars ; when you see the revolution of 

 the polar tisli t.' 



G6ldd'hif&i,'a. §.3, v. 8 & 10. 

 t Ursa uiiaor. 



