166 Account of the Jain Temples. [Aprin, 
one good quality which our countrymen can well appreciate, a total 
freedom from all prejudice, so that we entered the ‘‘ sanctum sancto- 
rum”’ of the inner temple without a murmur on their part, nor did they 
object to our handling the gods themselves. 
There were besides two inmates of the temples whom I must not 
omit to mention. They were women who had taken a vow of chastity, 
retired from the world, and dedicated themselves entirely to religion, or, 
as they themselves say, had become ‘‘ Sadz.”’ One of them was young, 
and had retired on the death of her husband. They spent their time 
in reading their religious books, which they readily showed, and were 
quite free from that prevailing reserve in Indian women, so much so 
that they followed us through the ‘‘ atria’”’ of the temples, and were 
ever ready to explain, as far as in their power, the different objects of 
our curiosity. 
It was from them I learnt the names of the twenty-four deified saints 
or gods of the Jains, which are as follows—1 Rikabdeo,—2 Ajilnath,— 
3 Sambunath,—4 Abumandji,—5 Sumtanath,—6 Padan Prabi,—7 
Suparisnath,—8 Chanda Prabu,—9 Subatandth.—10 Sitalnath,—11 
Siansnath,—12 Waspuji—13 Bimalnath,—14 Anandnath,—15 Darn- 
n4th,—16 Santinath,—17 Kuton4th,—18 Ar4nath,—19 Milinath,—20 
Muni Subartji,—21 Nawinath,—22 Néminathji,—23 Prisnathji,—24 
Mahavari, and it is not difficult to distinguish by the expressive affix 
of <‘‘ ji,” even from among this long list, the favored or favorite gods 
to whom the temples are dedicated. 
I also learned from these people, that there are large assemblages of 
people on Adz at different but unfixed periods, and that they chiefly 
come from Guzerat, Marwar, Ajmere, Malwa and Bombay, all of which 
except the latter are, in fact, the surrounding countries. The natives 
of India are, as it is well known, fond of perching their temples on the 
tops of hills and other remarkable places; and it is no doubt owing, as 
well to the isolated situation, as the great size of the mountain, that 
such a position has been chosen. There is, however, no marble on Adi, 
and certainly at present, no roads by which the enormous blocks of it 
could have been brought up from the pits that are at the base of the 
mountain, so that it is to be presumed they have been destroyed. 
From some specimens in my possession, it would seem that the sum- 
mit of Abu is granite ; but great part of the exposed rocks are in a state 
of decomposition, and break off in flakes. 
The vicinity of 4bé, though now without a large town, has been, as 
is discoverable from ruins, and according to tradition, a well cultivated 
and thickly peopled country. 
