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who differ from them in religious sentiment as they have been re- 

 presented. Dr. Buchanan, when speaking of the Jaina in Mysore, 

 says that " in a quarrel among the brahmins, the party which ob- 

 tained the victory, caused the priests of Jaina, with as many of 

 their followers as were obstinate, to be ground to death in oil- 

 mills; while the remainder, who were converted by this powerful 

 mode of argument, received pardon from the offended brahmins." 

 This intelligent traveller further observes, that the houses at Tonoru, 

 where this cruelty took place, are roofed with tiles, and covered 

 with thorns, to prevent the monkeys from unroofing them, because 

 those mischievous animals are very numerous, and to destroy them 

 is reckoned a grievous sin. Those very persons who applaud the 

 brahmins for having ground the Jainas in an oil-mill, shudder with 

 horror at the thought of a monkey being killed. 



These Jainas are a very singular sect among the Hindoos; we 

 find in the Asiatic Researches, that there are three classes of yatis, 

 or ascetics, in this tribe, called Anuvrata, Mahavrata, Nirvana. 

 " To attain the rank of Anuvrata, a man must forsake his family, 

 entirely cutting oft' his hair, throwing away the sacred thread, 

 holding in his hand a bundle of peacock's feathers, and an earthen 

 pot, and wearing only tawny coloured clothes; he must reside 

 for some lime in one of the temples. He next proceeds to the 

 second rank, Mahavrata; when totally abandoning any degree of 

 elegance in his dress, he uses only a rag fastened to a string round 

 his loins, as a BraJunachdri: he still retains his fan and pot; he 

 must not shave his head with razors, but employs his disciples to 

 pull out the hair by the roots. On the day, when this operation is 

 performed, he abstains from food; at other times he eats only once 



