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they contributed. This is positively asserted by the traditions of the 

 south in several instances : the Bauddhas of Kdnchi were confuted by 

 Akalanka, a Jam priest, and thereupon expelled the country. Vara 

 Pandya, of Madura, on becoming a Jain, is said to have persecuted the 

 JBauddhas, subjecting them to personal tortures, and banishing them 

 from the country. In Guzerat, Bauddha princes were succeeded by the 

 Jains. There is every reason to be satisfied, therefore, that the total 

 disappearance of the Bauddhas in India proper is connected with the 

 influence of the Jains, which may have commenced in the sixth or seventh 

 centuries, and continued till the twelfth. 



The inveteracy prevalent between kindred schisms is a sufficient rea- 

 son for any enmity felt by the Jains towards the Bauddhas, rather 

 than towards the Brahmanical Hindus. There is, indeed, a political 

 leaning to the latter, observable in their recognition of the orthodox 

 Pantheon, in the deference paid to the Vedas, and to the rites de- 

 rivable from them, to the institution of castes, and to the employ- 

 ment of Brahmans as ministrant priests. They appear also to have 

 adapted themselves to the prevailing form of Hinduism in different 

 places : thus at Abu, several Jain inscriptions commence with invo- 

 cations of Siva,* and in the Dekhin, an edict promulgated by 

 Bukka Raya, of Vijayanagar, declares there is no real difference be- 

 tween the Jains and Vaishnavas.^ In some places the same temples are 

 resorted to by Jains and Rdmdnujiya Vaishnavas, and as observed by Mr. 

 Colebrooke, a Jain on renouncing the heretical doctrines of his sect, 

 takes his place amongst the orthodox Hindus as a Kshetriya or Vaisya, 

 which would not be the case with a convert, who has not already caste as 



* Major Delamaine notices that the mountain Girndr, 19 equally sacred to Hindus as to 

 Jains, and that an ancient temple of Mahadeva is erected there. 



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