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is the only true God, I shall aver, no, my God is alone the 

 true God. Do you then aver it before me?" 



The praise- worthy Brahmans, thereupon, rebuked the 

 Buddhist, and thus addressed him : " We shall certainly 

 defeat thee, and expose thee to the derision of the learned. 

 To speak to thee any more would be like casting a stone in 

 the mud. 



" Though it does not become us to discourse with such 

 a despicable wretch as thou art, nevertheless we will (ac- 

 cept thy challange) and defeat thee in one word, even as 

 the great stop for a while, and curb the fury of a dog that 

 barks. 



"If we propound our arguments before the assembly of 

 potent monarchs, and men of true understanding, and they 



or rules of faith and practice as drawn from the Vedas. Twenty 

 eight of these Agamas are peculiar to the votaries of Siva, and 



their names are as follows : 

























6. Dib'dha .......... 

















10. Subrabheda 









12. Nisvasa .......... 













15. Vira . . 





16. Rawra ...... ... 





17. Makuta ... . 





18. Vimala ...... .... 





19. Chandragnana. 





20. Bimba v = 



. . . . fiSu>f_J4/> 



21. Purohita ...... 









23. Sidd'ha 





