808 March between Mhow and Saugor, 1838. [Oct. 



however, only some Jain statues, eight or ten feet high, a few lying in 

 the miserable village ; the best on the top of a hill, which overhangs 

 it. The temples which once sheltered them, of which there were the 

 ruins of three or four on the hill, have long been thrown down ; but we 

 could calculate their age with sufficient precision ; for, though the 

 weather-worn inscriptions on the plinths of the statues were illegible, 

 the date 11th or perhaps 12th could be traced. We made out but one 

 Sanchun, the deer of Santinath.* 



Whether these images are Digumbir or Switumbir, it is impossible 

 to say, for all statues of the twenty-four are Digumbir, or at least 

 naked. Some Switumbirs indeed pretend that their statues may be 

 detected by a string (Kundora) round the loins — a doubtful proof, 

 since the wrinkles of the belly are very likely to be mistaken for it. 

 All,t whether Digumbir, or Switumbir, have as before remarked, the 

 Sri butch,% with which mark the future Tirthaukur is said to be 

 distinguished at his birth. In fact there is not any positive distinction 

 between the undressed images, as is proved by some of them — the cele- 

 brated Rikhabnath near Doongerpoor for instance — being claimed by 

 both sects. Tod's remark (Raj. 2 ; 744) which seems to argue the 

 contrary, may be safely taken as a flourish. 



Though the antiquities of Bijwar proved so little interesting, the 

 excursion was altogether pleasant enough. One of our party, a Jutti, 

 was in high delight as we neared his native place Baglee, which he 

 had not visited for twenty years, though he had been all that time 

 at Indore. It was amusing to watch the eagerness, with which 

 he recognized every old hut, mata, or tree, to most of which some 



* The Sanchun is frequently omitted on old Jain statues, and sometimes, but more 

 rarely, on modern ones. In such cases the saint represented must be guessed at. 



f It must be confessed, however, that the Digumbir figures As. Rs. vol. 9, are 

 without it. 



% The Sri butch, which is generally painted as a flower, but carved on an image as 

 if a squarely is one of the Jain Asht Mungliks, or eight auspicious symbols, which 

 slightly differ from those of the Budhs. As. R. 16, 460. They are represented in drawing 

 (A.) a copy from a small brass table, sometimes placed before a saint, as a kind of altar. 

 It was picked up by me at a fair, from the miscellaneous rubbish of a Bohra's shop, and 

 may have been plundered from some old temple. At the back is scratched the date 1167. 

 The signs, according to the Jiva Bhagawut Sutra, 3rd Kund, are the,— 1st Swastica,— 

 2nd Sri Butch, — 3rd Nandivertha, — 4th Censer, — 5th Throne, — 6th Kullus, (or water) 

 — or 7th the Fish, — 8th Looking-glass. The Sri Butch occasionally carved on images 

 of Krishna seems somewhat different from the Jain mark, — if indeed I mistake not in 

 supposing the former to be synonymous with the Briguluta, As. R. 16, 161 ; Prem 

 Sagur 88. 



