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their lives, hotly pursued ; when Nishcalavgan, by sacrificing his life, 

 contrived to allow Jcalangan to escape ; charging him, on succeeding, 

 to spread their system. The Baudd'has, in the heat of the moment had 

 tied a piece of flesh in all the Jahia fanes, with a sloca of contemptuous 

 import. Jcalojigan after his escape put a vessel, containing ordure, in 

 the Bauddlia fanes with another sloca in retaliation. Under these cir- 

 cumstances of discord, the raja ordered an assembly of Baadd'ha and 

 Jaina learned men to dispute with each other, and to finish within a 

 specified time, when he would himself embrace the victorious system, 

 and put all of the opposite parly to death by grinding them in oil-mills. 

 The Baudd'has concealed themselves behind a tliin cloth enclosure, so 

 as to see their opponents without themselves being seen ; and, manag- 

 ed the discussion by means of doing homage to an evil goddess, as 

 the appointed term approached, the t/a/wa^- became anxious for their 

 lives. In this extremity Acalangan had recourse to a goddess named 

 Svdla-devi, who appeared to him, and gave him a phrase to use, which 

 would m.ean, "what more"? or "what is there behind" ? bidding 

 him kick with his foot behind the veil or curtain. On the morrow 

 Acalangan enquired " What more" ? or " what is there behind" ? 

 and at the same time by kicking at the curtain, he broke a large jar in 

 which the fermented juice of the palm-tree had been kept, wherein 

 from long standing there were worms, and whence an offensive smell 

 proceeded. The king in consequence declared the Baudd'has to be 

 conquered, to which they were compelled to accede. Acalangan was 

 afterwards admitted to the Rajahs presence ; and became his instruc- 

 tor. 



There is a reference to further matter on the subject contained in 

 book No. 27, 



Remark.— Vn^QV restriction as to that reference, it may be observed, 

 that from this section the Baudd'has and Jainas clearly appear to have 

 lived together as people of one religion, under two modifications ; the 

 Jaijias gradually increasing by coming from the north ; and that only 

 a casual dispute led to the violence of a schism. The account is 

 an ex-parle one from the Jainas, who seem to have supplanted the 

 Baudd'has. The statement that these last had a fane at Conjeverant 

 is consistent with vestiges found there, and elucidates a part of the 

 Madura Sthalla purana, while it affords an idea as to the time, check- 

 ing the extravagance of that Purana. Supposing the statement receiv- 

 ed from the Jainas to be with them a matter of record, or correct 

 tradition, we may conclude with certainty that incidents in the Madura 

 Purana, carried up to a high antiquity, were not more remote than the 



