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all, who oppofed him. This tale, which has been extracted from a book, 

 entitled Sancara-prddurrbbdva, was manifestly invented, for the purpofe of 

 aggrandizing Sancara'cha'rya, whofe expofiticn of the Upanijhads and 

 comment on the Veddnta, with other excellent works, in profe and verfe, on 

 the being and attributes of GOD, are ftill extant and feduloufly fludied by 

 the Veddnii fchool : his difciples confidered him as an incarnation of Maha'- 

 de'va; but he tarnilhedhis brilliant character by fomenting the religious war, 

 in which moft of the perfecuted Jamas were flain or expelled from thefe 

 parts of India ; very few of them now remaining in the Gangetick provinces 

 or in the weflern peninfula, and thofe few living in penury and ignorance, 

 apparently very wretched, and extremely referved on all fubjecls of religion. 

 Thefe heterodox Indians are divided into three feels : the followers of J i n a 

 we find chiefly difperfedon the borders of India; thofe of Buddha, m. Tibet 

 and other vail regions to the north and earl of it; while thofe of Arhan 

 (who are faid to have been anciently the moll powerful of the three) now 

 relide principally in Siam and in other kingdoms of the eaflern peninfula. 

 Arhan is reported to have left impreffions of his feet on rocks in very re- 

 mote countries, as monuments of his very extenlive travels : the moll re- 

 markable of them is in the iiland of Slnhal or Si/an, and the Siamefe revere 

 it under the name of Prapdt from the Sanfcrit word Prapdda; but the Brdh- 

 menj infiR', that it was made by the foot of Ra'vana. Another impreffion 

 of a fcot, : ' about two cubits long, was to be fee'n, in' the time of Herodo- 

 tus, on the banks of the river Tyras, now called the Dnieper : the peo- 

 ple of that country- were certainly Bauddhas, and their high ' prieft, who re- 

 sided on Mount Cocajon, at prefent named Casjon, was believed to be regene- 

 rate, exs&y like the Lama oi Tibet. 

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As to Ji-na, lie is faid by his followers to have afTamed twenty-four 



