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Section 8. Account of the Sarya, and Chandra, vamsas, or solar, and 

 lunar races. 



A very brief reference to the origin of the Chanclra-vamsa, and then a 

 rapid transition to the posterity of Santanu ; entering on the details con- 

 tained in the il/aAa.y?«?'«'«, down to the death of Pdndu: the narrative 

 then breaks off abruptly. 



Note. The fragment is of little or no value. 



Section 9. Notice of the origin of some subdivisions among the 

 Jainas. 



This short memorandum states the date, and cause, of four of the va- 

 riations, or separate classes, among the Jainas. It is in the hand- 

 writing, and kind of ink, which heretofore, in other documents, occa- 

 sioned so much trouble. I have had it re^itored. 



Section 10. Account of the Paw^a-cwrzi^. 



This is a paper concerning a singular species of subterranea ; simi- 

 lar, in its contents, to the one abstracted in my second report : MS. book, 

 No. 14, sec. 1. This document follows the same general outline of 

 attempted explanations, as in that one ; only it is rather more full con- 

 cerning the leaving aged people to die in tombs, prepared for them, 

 when grown feeble , in a way similar in elFect to that said to be com- 

 mon on the banks of the Ganges. I have no confidence in these vague 

 explanations ; and believe the said excavations to be the tombs of 

 Bactrian invaders ; as I have before intimated, with reasons added, in 

 my remarks on the Chola pHrva patayam ; at the commencement of 

 my second report. As however all evidence, on this subject, is worthy 

 to be kept on record, and as the hand-writing of the paper in question 

 is a mere scrawl, I have had it recopied. 



Section 11. Account of the Bauddha-rajas. 



In the time of Parisva tirfhacara a Jaina ascetic named PuVthikirti, 

 being of great learning and acute intellect, began to moot differences 

 in the /ama mode of credence; leading to an appeal to their tribunal 



