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After the conversion of these Brakmans and their disciples, MahAvira 

 instructed them further in his doctrines, and they again taught them to 

 others, becoming the heads of separate schools. Akampita and Achala- 

 bheata, however, and Metarya and Prabhasa taught in common, so that 

 the eleven Ganddhipas established but nine Ganas or classes. 



Having thus attained the object of his penance and silence, Mahav! ra, 

 attended by his disciples, wandered about to different places, disseminat- 

 ing the Jain belief, and making numerous converts. The scene of his 

 labours is mostly along the Ganges, in the modern districts of Behar and 

 Allahabad, and principally at the cities of Kausdmbi and Rdjagriha, un- 

 der the kings Satanika and Srenika, both of whom are Jains. The occur- 

 rences described relate more to the disciples of the Saint than to himself, 

 and there are some curious matters of an apparently historical character. 

 There is also a prophetic account of Hemachandra himself, and his patron 

 Kumara Pala of Guzerat, put into the mouth of Mahav! ra; but these are 

 foreign to our present purpose, which is confined to the progress of the 

 Jain sage. 



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Mahavira having completed the period of his earthly career, returned 

 to Apdpapuri, whither he was attended by a numerous concourse of fol- 

 lowers of various designations. However fanciful the enumeration, the 

 list is not uninstructive, as it displays the use of various terms to signify 

 different orders of one sect, and not, as has been sometimes erroneously 

 supposed, the sect itself. Sramanas, Sadhs and Srdvaks, may be Jains, but 

 they are not necessarily so, nor do they singly designate all the indivi- 

 duals o£ that persuasion. Vim's train consists of Sddhus, holy men, fourteen 

 thousand ; Sddhwis holy women, thirty-six thousand ; Sramanas, or ascetics, 

 versed in the fourteen Purvas, three hundred; Avadhijninis, those knowing 

 the limits or laws, one thousand and three hundred ; Kevalis, or detached from 

 acts, seven hundred; Manor/its, possessors of intellectual wisdom, five 



