50 Heporl on the Mackenzie Manuscripts, [J AN". 



beatification in the Isnna-calpam. There follow details of capital 

 towns, each the metropolis of a state or kingdom. Prophetic declara- 

 tion as to the future birth of Frishab' ha-svami— his incarnation. — 

 Brahf/ia ?ind other gods did him homage; many matters follow con- 

 cerning that incarnation and its praises ; an account of the instructions 

 given by Frishab^ ha-svami, seated on a lofty seat or throne ; Baratha 

 and others received his lectures. An account of their panegyric on the 

 teacher. The glory of the Jaina system dwelt on. The Chacraverti 

 afterwards returned to Ayodhya, and received homage from the 

 Fidi/adharas. In a dream he had a vision of the god, who announced 

 to him that persecutions and sufferings would arise from the Pashandis 

 (a contemptuous epithet applied to the Saivas) and also from the 

 Mlechchas (outcasts or barbarians) detailed at length. The Chacra- 

 verti in the morning performed the rite of ablution, in order to remove 

 the evil of the dream, or to avert its accomplishment. Details of 

 Probasan, Cumbham, and many others, are given, as coming from the 

 mouth of Gautarna, deliveved to Srenica; that is to say of what kind 

 of birth or form of being, they before were (on the system of the 

 metempsychosis), what kind of actions they performed ; afterwards, 

 being instructed in the Jaina system, they acquired beatification. 

 These various accounts, in much detail, occupy the rest of the work. 



Note. — This palm-leaf manuscript on examination was found to be 

 complete, and in good order ; with the exception of about fifty leaves at 

 the beginning. These were restored on other palm-leaves, and added 

 to the book, for its more certain preservation. 



The work it will be seen carries up the origin of the Jaina system to 

 the very birth of time; yet as the whole turns on the alleged incarna- 

 tion of Frishah' ha-svami (considered by some to be a subordinate in- 

 carnation of Fishnu),s.ndiK'& FrishaV ha-svami was posterior to Gautama 

 Buddlia, the evidence for such high antiquity may receive as much 

 credence as any one may choose to bestow. In truth the Jaina system, 

 at its origin, was a modification of the Faishnava one. To me it 

 seems that the Pali work (about to be published in Ceylon) entitled 

 the Mahawanso (or great genealogy) clearly fixes the origin of the 

 Baudd^ha and Jaina systems at Magadha ; three or four hundred years 

 antecedent to the Christian era. Nothing in this work, as it seems to 

 me, contradicts such an origin ; without being easily reconcileable 

 thereto. The entire book might be worth translating, at some future 

 period; for though the /aiwa legendary history is as much beclouded 

 with metaphor and fiction as thQ Brahmanical ; yet, from a compari- 



