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often described in their Shastrus as pulling out by handsful : and some 

 Jain pundits have even assured me, that what appears like hair on 

 their statues, is not intended to represent hair, but the naked scalp 

 thus forcibly deprived of it.* Jain saints, however, like the Budhs, 

 sometimes wear a mookhut. 



On a pilaster to the right, as you enter the temple, is a rudely cut 

 inscription, from which it is to be feared but little light will be thrown 

 on the history of the place ; as it merely records, and that indistinctly, 

 the grant during the reign of the liberal and wise Deva Pal, of ground 

 for twenty temples to one Yusheek Pal. The date, a. d. 1158, is a 

 dark period in Malwa history : and Deva Pal, whose name is not to be 

 found in the list of kings, was probably some petty chief, who in those 

 days of anarchy and confusion, raised himself to temporary conse- 

 quence in this wild part of the country. 



Peeplia, three miles from Kurnawud, contains no antiquities, and 

 but one place worth visiting — a Digumbir Jain temple ; which as the 

 place is under the tolerant rule of a Rajpoot, (the Raja of JBaglee), 

 occupies a conspicuous position in the Bazar, instead of being concealed, 

 as in a Mahratta town, in some obscure alley. It may be here noticed 

 that from this to Saugor, the Jains are chiefly Digumbir, consisting, 

 for the most part, of Pudmavati Pwawurs; which Ginatt is entirely of 

 that class. Switumbirs, as elsewhere remarked, are more commonly 

 met with round Ougein.J 



From Peeplia a road strikes off to Hoshungabad, and the report of 

 antiquities at the first march induced us to deviate so far. We found 



* Modem Jain priests, as far as I can learn, have no fixed rule of wearing their 

 hair. They generally shave it in front, and allow it to grow long behind. But Dhoon- 

 dias, Soomegis, and a few Gooroos and Juttes eradicate the hair, though not in the 

 Panch Mooshti fashion of their ancestors, only plucking them out occasionally, as for 

 instance once a year, tenderly, and one by one. Budh priests have, if I mistake not, in 

 all countries always shaved their heads, Davy 296, 210, 219. Carous, Japan, Crawford, 

 Mandeus, M. Polo 253 and note. When a Jutti adopts achela he shaves all the hair off 

 the child's head, except one lock, which it is the Gooroo's part to pull out {lachun.) 

 The Digumbir sannyasis of the south never shave A. R. 9. 284. 



f ?l\«1lflr S° vulgarly spelt and pronounced. Miles writes the word Nat : Tod, 



Nyat : Sanscrit ^Tm . 



X That is taking Ougein as a centre, and giving the circle a radius of forty miles : but 

 north of Ougein, Visnooi Buniahs outnumber the Jains. From Rutlam the Digumbirs 

 begin to increase ; and from Banswarra to the Aravulli, hardly any other tribe is to be 

 met with but Digumbir Hoomurs. Guzerat, Marwar, and north Mewar are the chief 

 seats of the Switumbirs, 



