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 140 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Mat, 1873. the wife of Jamali. His father and mother died when he was 28 years of age; and he con¬ tinued for two years afterwards with Nandi- vardhana: he then departed to practise austerities, which he continued twelve and a half year9 as a sage only in outward disguise: as a Digambara “ he went robeless, and had no vessel but his hand.” Finally he became an Arhaty or Jina, being worthy of universal ado¬ ration, omniscient, and all-seeing; and at the age of seventy-two years he became exempt from all pain for ever. This is said to have occurred at Pawapuri or P&papuri near Raja- g r i h a at the court of Hastipala, three and a half months before the close of the fourth age or Dulchamd Sukhamd in the great period named avasarptni. “ On the night on which the adorable ascetic here was delivered from pain, Gotama Indrabhfiti, the chief of his perfectly initiated disciples, had the bonds of affection by which he was tied to his preceptor cut asunder, and attained infinite, certain, and supreme intelligence, and perception.” This event the Gujarat Jainas date 470 before the Saihvat of Vikrama, i. e. B. c. 526* *; others ap¬ parently 512 years before Vikrama, or b. c. 5691; the Jainas of Bengal 580, and those of Maisur 607 before Vikrama, J but probably by mistake for the Saka era, which would bring these latter dates to b. c. 502 and 539 respectively. § Adiswara, Santi, Nemi, Parswa, and Vira, the first, sixteenth, and last three Tirthankar&s are regarded as the principal jinas ; they are more frequently mentioned than the others, and their statues are more numerous. Besides the Tirthankaras of the present (Ava- sarpini) cycle of the world’s duration, they reckon also twenty-four each of the past and future ([Utsarpint) renovations or cycles. He- machandra gives the names of the whole forty- eight in the following lines :— Utsarpinyamatitayam chaturvinsatirarhatam 1 Kevaladnyani2Nirvani3Sagaro-tha4Mahayaiah 11 6VimalahflSarvanubhtitih7Sridharo8Datta tirtha¬ krit | ®Damodara10 Sutej asch11 Svamyathol8Munisuvra- tah || 13SumatihuSivagati schaiv15Astago tha18Nimis- varah | 17AnilouVasodhara khyahlflKritargho thaaMine- svaralj || Sampratih | Bhavinyan tu Padmanabhah3Suradevah3Supars- vakah || 4Svayamprabha scha5Sarvanubhfitir®Deva7Sru- todayau | 8Pedhalah0PottilaschapiloSatakirti scha11Suvra- tal) || 12Amamo nish18Kashayascha nish14Pulako tha nirl5Mamah | 16 Chitraguptah17Samadhi schaI8Sanvara scha10 Yasodharah || Bhadrakrit | Evam sarvavasarpinyutsarpinishu jinottamah ||* THE LEGEND OF RISHYA SRlSGA. BY V. N. NABASIMMITENGAB, BENGALOR. In one of the deepest and most romantic glens of the Maisftr Malnad, formed by the buttresses of the Western Ghats, is nestled the shrine of Sringesvara of Kigga. tThe locality is extreme¬ ly picturesque, and the habits and customs of the inhabitants are very primitive. The soil is rich, and, though thinly scattered, the peasants are by no means over-industrious. The produc¬ t Prinsep’s Useful Tables (1858), p. 166. X Kalpa SAtra, pref. p. iii. § Weber would bring down this date to 348 or 349 B. C. Uber Catr. Mdhdt. p. 12. • Abhidhdna Chintdmani, 58—70. In other lists, the 8th, lltb, and 15th of the Past Age are styled £rtdatta, tions are among the most valuable, consisting of supari, cardamoms, rice, &c. Territorially, the village of Kigga is in the Koppa Taluka of the Nagar Division. There is a tradition at¬ taching to this shrine to the effect that no drought will ever approach within 12 gHvadas^[ of the god. In seeking the origin of this tradi¬ tion, the following legend has been gathered. ^rtsv&mi, and ^riastaga, and the affix ji is usually added to each. To most of the names of the Future Jinas the affix is ndthayanama, and the 6th, 7th, 15th, 21st and 22nd are respectively called $rjivadeva, Srutodan&tha, Mamanmu- n&tha, Sri Mallin&tha, and ^rljinadeva. See Briggs, Cities of Qujarashtra, p. 349. f A gftvadA is popularly known to be about 12 English miles.
 * l^uddhamatih2aSivakarah83Syandana schatha24
 * °Vijayo31Malla DevauMchAnantavlrya scha24
 * 1) Conf. Stevenson, Kalpa Stitra, pp. 86, 90, 91, 92, 96.