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teaching their doctrinal and polemical sastras. They became very accom- 

 plished in their religious ways. They were united among themselves, 

 and sent their children to a great distance to receive instruction. 



Two persons named Acalangan and Nishcalangan produced a 

 persecution by privately writing in a Bauddha book that the Jaina sys- 

 tem was the best one. A device was had recourse to in order to discover 

 the authors ; and, on being discovered, they were forced to flee for their 

 life, hotly pursued ; when Nishcalangan, by sacrificing his life, contriv- 

 ed to allow Acalangan to escape, charging him, on succeeding to spread 

 their system. The Bauddhas, in the heat of the moment had tied a 

 piece of flesh in all the Jaina fanes, with a sloca of contemptuous import. 

 Acalangan after his escape put a vessel containing ordure in the Baud- 

 dha fanes, with another sloca in retaliation. Under these circumstances 

 of discord, the raja ordered an assembly of Bauddha, and Jaina, learned 

 men to dispute with each other, and to finish within a specified time, 

 when he would himself embrace the victorious system, and put all of the 

 opposite party to death by grinding them in oil- mills. The Bauddhas 

 concealed themselves behind a thin cloth enclosure, so as to see their 

 opponents without themselves being seen, and managed the discussion 

 by means of doing homage to an evil goddess : as the appointed term 

 approached the Jainas became anxious for their lives. In this extremity 

 Acalangan had recourse to a goddess named Svala-dkvi, who ap- 

 peared to him, and gave him a phrase to use, which would mean, 

 " what more ?" or " what is there behind ?" bidding him kick with his 

 foot behind the veil or curtain. On the morrow Acalangan inquired 

 H what more ?" or " what is there behind ?" and at the same time 

 by kicking at the curtain, he broke a large jar in which the fer- 

 mented juice of the palm-tree had been kept, wherein from long 

 standing there were worms, and whence an offensive smell proceeded. 

 The king in consequence declared the Bauddhas to be conquered, to 

 which they were compelled to accede. Acalangan was afterwards 

 admitted to the raja's presence, and became his instructor. — There is a 

 reference to further matter on the subject contained in book No. 27. 



Remark. Under restriction as to that reference, it may be observed 

 that from this section the Bauddhas and Jainas clearly appear to have 

 lived together as people of one religion under two modifications ; the 

 Jainas gradually increasing by coming from the north, and that a casual 

 dispute only led to the violence of a schism. The account is an ex-parte 

 one from the Jainas, who seem to have supplanted the Bauddhas. The 

 statement that these last had a fane at Conjeveram is consistent with 

 vestiges found there, and elucidates a part of the Madura Sthalla-pu- 



