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taken generally for a confirmation of opinion among the Jainas sub- 

 stantially the same as to the leading fact of the deluge with the opinions 

 and records concerning the same great event by the Brahmanical Hin- 

 dus. 



Section 2. — Account of a Raja of Chenji ( GinjeeJ who persecuted 

 the Jaina people. 

 In the year of Salivdhana 1400 (A. D. 1478, 9) Ca'varai Venca- 

 tapati NaYaK ruled in Ginjee, over the Tiruvadi district near Vrid- 

 dhdchula. Being a man of a low tribe, he demanded of the brahmans 

 who among them would give one of their daughters to him as a wife. 

 They replied that if the Jainas would first give him a wife, they would 

 themselves do the same. The brahmans went to a famous Jaina in 

 the Dindivanam district, who promised to give his daughter to the 

 chieftain ; but instead of actually doing so, contrived to offer him a 

 very cutting insult. The chief greatly incensed issued an order to de- 

 capitate all the Jainas that could be met with. In consequence some 

 Jainas emigrated : some adopted the Saiva religion ; some were slain, 

 and some dissembled, secretly following their own rites. In Uppu- 

 Vehir a disguised Jaina was taken at a pool of water while performing 

 his evening ceremonies in the Jama method, and was sent to Ginjee ; 

 but as the chief had just then a child born in his house, he pardoned 

 the Jaina. This person after so narrow an escape vowed to devote 

 himself to an ascetic life. With some preparatory studies he fulfilled 

 his vow. 



Another Jaina, through fear, had emigrated towards the south, 

 passing from place to place, till at length in a dream he was directed 

 not to go any further away. Immediately afterwards he heard of the 

 approach of the Muhammadans towards his native place. He went to 

 meet them, and advanced as far as Arcot ; where he acquired land to 

 cultivate. 



After some time he sent for the before mentioned Jama ascetic ; 

 and to prevent a strange religion being introduced, he located that per- 

 son on his lands as a teacher and guide. Some time afterwards a 

 brahman named Tatta'cha'ryar set up a pillar at Conjeveram and 

 challenged any who might think proper to come and dispute with him. 

 Hearing of this circumstance the aforesaid Jaina teacher named Vira- 

 chena Acha'rya went thither, and overcame Tatta'cha'ryar in 

 polemical dispute, upset the pillar, and returned to Uppu" Vehir ; where 

 he fell sick, and died. Subsequently the Jaina religion flourished 

 greatly in that neighbourhood, and TaYamur LJdaigar continued to 



