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A Supplement to the Six Reports 



[No. 33 ♦ 



Section 4. Account of the derivation of the Saiva, Bauddha, and Vaish 

 nava systems, from the Samuna^ or Jaina mode of credence. 



This brief section contains simply an assertion that the Saiva mode of 

 credence, and the' 3Iddhava class of Vaishnavas were derived from the 

 Jainas. As an assertion it may be weighed ; but it does not appear to be 

 supported by evidence ; and I suppose was acquired from conversation 

 with modern Jainas. There is added a mention of a few books, and 

 their authors ; usually considered to have been composed by them. 

 Among them I observe the TJllamadaiyan ascribed to Ullamndaiya 

 cavesvara. 



Section 5 and 6. Account of the succession of ancient and famous 

 Jaina sages. 



In these sections there is a list of Tirfhacaras and others, inclusive of 

 poets, and other authors, and persons who filled the office of religious 

 instructors. The document is of some value, in stating the Jaina view 

 of the subject. It gives by inference a very recent origin to the Call- 

 yuga: that is about 400 years antecedent^to the Christian era. The list 

 of authors must be received with circumspection, in as much as it as- 

 cribes the Calingatu Parani to a t/ama poet ; which from its strongly 

 Saiva character, I should think could not possibly be the case. Being 

 copied, the whole section, can at any time be made matter of reference. 



Section 7. Eepresentation of the Jamas _respecting their sacred build- 

 ings, &c. 



In this paper it is stated that'there are many Ja^na' fanes in the Car- 

 natic, which are in ruins, or gone to decay; and some account is given of 

 the various molestations suffered by the Jainas from their neighbours. 

 In particular, it is mentioned, that Madhangan, a ruler of Chenji, threw 

 down, or distroyed many of their edifices, and decapitated great num- 

 bers of the Jainas. The paper closes with a request to the Surveyor Ge- 

 neral of India (Colonel Mackenzie) to rebuild, and repair the decayed, or 

 ruined temples. 



Section 8. Account by Tirii-voihari^ in the Varzutavur district, of a re- 

 markable image, and of Vacra a racshasa. 



This title I collect from the paper containing the section heading in the 

 book. It is a wildly legendary statement. There is a very large stone 

 image, in the human form, in a recumbent posture. The account of its 

 origin is, that it was once a tree, and that a sage passing by who wag 

 hungry, being disappointed in finding no fruit, doomed it to become 

 stone. In the same neighbourhood a rdcshasa termed Vacra built a 

 residence : and certain streams, that now flow with a reddish colored 

 water, are said to contain his blood, after he was killed. 



Bemark is superfluous; except that the image is probably one of those 

 gigantic ones, met with occasionally in different parts of India. 



