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R. Mitra —Pictures of Tirthankaras. 
be tbe king in whose reign the saint flourished. The name of the saint and 
that of the king are written in golden letters. As the first twenty-one or 
twenty-two Tirthankaras are believed by Oriental scholars to be apocryphal, 
conjured up to cast a halo of antiquity on the system of religion which 
the last two or three disseminated, (the last alone is a historical character,) it 
is not to be wondered at that there should be so much sameness in their 
likenesses ; but as the history of Jainism is a matter of considerable import¬ 
ance, the pictures are of interest as containing the ideas of the Jains on the 
subject. 
The following is a descriptive list of the saints, their colours, their em¬ 
blems and the names of the different kings in whose reigns they flourished. 
List of Tirthankaras. 
No. 
Name. 
Colour. 
Emblem. 
Name of king in whose 
reign he flourished. 
1 . 
Adinatha.* 
Yellow. 
Bull. 
Bharata Chakri. 
2. 
Ajitanatha. 
Yellow. 
Elephant. 
Sagara Chakri. 
3. 
Sambhavanatha. 
Yellow. 
Horse. 
Satyavirya. 
4. 
Abhinandana. 
Yellow. 
Monkey. 
Mitrabliava. 
5. 
Sumatinatha. 
Yellow. 
Curlew. 
Mitra virya. 
C. 
Padmaprabha. 
Red. 
Red lotus. 
Yamadyuti. 
7. 
Suparsvanatha. 
Yellow. 
Svastika. 
Dharmavirya. 
8. 
Chandraprabha. 
Lead.f 
Crescent. 
Danavirya. 
9. 
Pushpadanta. 
White. 
Crocodile. 
Meghavata. 
10. 
Sitalanatha. 
Yellow. 
S'rivatsa.J 
Simandha. 
11. 
S'reyansanatha. 
Yellow. 
Rhinoceros. 
Tripishta Vasudeva. 
12. 
Vasupujya. 
Red. 
Buffalo. 
Dvipishta Yasudeva. 
13. 
Vimalanatha. 
Yellow. 
Boar. 
Svayambhu Yasudeva. 
14. 
Anantanatha. 
Yellow. 
Ram. § 
Purushottama Vasu¬ 
deva. 
15. 
Dharmanatha. 
Yellow. 
Spike-head¬ 
ed club 
Pundarika Yasudeva. 
16. 
S'antinatha. 
Yellow. 
Black an¬ 
telope. 
Purushadatta. 
17. 
Kunthanatha. 
Yellow. 
Goat. 
Kunala. 
18. 
Aranatha. 
Yellow. 
Fish. || 
Govinda. 
* Alias Rishahha. 
f White according to Stevenson in the Preface to his translation of the Kalpa. 
J Diamond ditto. 
§ Falcon ditto. 
|| Nandavarta ditto. 
