1849.] discovered on a Spur of the Satpoorah Range. 947 



brahmans is notorious, but they are subordinate not principal ones, even 

 Brahma and Maheswara are at present deities but inferior in rank and 

 power to Indra, who is considered " the chief of all the happy beings 

 that reside in Swarga ;" by the Jains termed Sukko or Sakkee (mighty) 

 and worshipped by prayer and offerings of fruits and flowers, and he 

 is a favorite presiding deity, but not solitary, there being 64 Indras, 

 two of whom govern one of their classes, the Bhawanipratis. Indra is 

 also worshipped in his character as the regent of a quarter, and the 

 Rahtores of Canouj are said to have sprung from the back-bone of one 

 (Col. Sykes). We might thus easily be prepared for the name of Indra, 

 and attach a modern source to it, but here we have the name not of In- 

 dra, but of the figurative conqueror of Indra, Indrajit, the son of Ravana, 

 the Meghanada, so renowned in the wars of Rama, preserved for three 

 centuries in the records of the temple, and applied not only to the tem- 

 ples, but also to a figure, the object of worship, and how one of the 

 Tirthankaras would have got the surname of Indrajit it is difficult to 

 say, unless as in Meghanada' s case, the term is used metaphorically as 

 an attribute of great power, which I take to be the true rationaal of 

 the term for Ravana, king of the Rakshasas, is said to have worshipped 

 the image of Gomat Iswara at Beligula, but at Bawangaj his son In- 

 drajit is made a devata and himself worshipped, a manifest contradic- 

 tion, and we find a temple at Woon bearing the very same name. En- 

 passant, I may remark the very strong affinity between the Jain struc- 

 tures at Bawangaj and Woon, a similarity extending to the date, name 

 and isolated figures, which will form the subject of another paper. The 

 orthography of the word ^^T^Tfff^ scarcely permits a resolution into 

 its component parts, which but for its established meaning and histori- 

 cal reference might be attempted. For instance, Indra and Ajet referring 

 to the 3rd Tirthankara, and written without the medial, but against 

 any such corruption is the distinct affix 5TTcf jdt to ISM Sakra, and 

 ^T*PTt Surapati, names of Indra decisive, I think that Indra and not 

 Ajit is the deity meant, otherwise Indra's names would be separate and 

 other appelation Ajetha given. - The most important inscription which I 

 myself met with at Bawangaj was a small one upon the Nokar foot of an 

 image of Parswinath, found near the large figure, and which I brought 

 away with me, and have appended to the others. For some time I 

 was baffled by it, but the Rev. Dr. Wilson, to whom I feel under great 



