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SuDHERMAwere the sons of Dhanamitra andDHAMMiLLA, two Brahmans 

 of Kollaka, the former of the Bharadwdja, and the latter of the Agnivaisya 

 tribe. Mandita and Maurya putra were half-brothers, the sons of 

 Vijayadevi by Dhana deva and Maurya, two Brahmans of the Vdsishtha 

 and Kasyapa races, but cousins by the mother's side, and consequently, 

 according to the custom of the country, it is stated, the one took the 

 other's widow to wife upon his decease. Akampita was the son of a 

 Maithili Brahman, of the Gautama tribe. Achalabhrata, of a Brahman 

 of Oude, of the Hdrita family. Metarya was a Brahman of Vatsa, of 

 the Kaundilya tribe ; and Prabhasa, a Brahman of the same race, but a 

 native of Mdjagriha in Behar. These are the eleven Ganadharas, or 

 Ganddhipas, holders or masters of Jain schools, although, before their 

 conversion, learned in the four Vedas, and teaching the doctrines con- 

 tained in them. 



These converts to Jain principles are mostly made in the same man- 

 ner : each comes to the Saint, prepared to overwhelm him with shame 

 when he salutes them mildly by name, tells them the subject that excites 

 their unuttered doubts and solves the difficulty, not always very satisfac- 

 torily or distinctly it must be admitted; but the whole is an epitome of 

 the Jain notions on those subjects which chiefly engage the attention of 

 the Hindu philosophers. 



iNDRABHtJTi doubts whether there be life (Jiva) or not — Mahavira 

 says there is, and that it is the vessel of virtue and vice, or where would 

 be the use of acts of virtue or piety. 



Agnibhuti questions if there be acts (Kerma) or not, to which Maha- 

 vira replies in the affirmative, and that from them proceed all bodily 

 pleasure and pain, and the various migrations of the living principle 

 through different forms. 



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