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138 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Mat, 1873. which so far from hitting him, came and stood near him: Purushottama then picking up tho chakra in his turn, flung it at M & d h u Kaitabha who was slain by it; after which he became Adhipati of three Khandas, and ruling over the kingdom for some time, Purushot¬ tama on his dissolution, leaving his body, his soul went to hell, but Suprabha after the death of his brother being much grieved, went to Soma- prabha Kevali, and received initiation from him, and acquiring the state of a Kevali, he obtained beatitude. Madhu Kaitabha also after his death went to hell.* 15. Dharma was son of B h a n u by S u - v r a t a , and was born at Ratnapuri: character¬ ized by tho vajra or thunderbolt: his devi was Kandarpa; he was forty-five poles in sta¬ ture, and lived 1,000,000 years : he was deified four sugar as after the fourteenth Jina. 16. Santi was the son of Visvasena by A c h i r a , born at Hastinapur; he has the antelope (mriga) for his cognizance. His Sasana was Nirvani; he was forty poles in stature, lived 100,000 years, and died two sd¬ garas later than the preceding, f 17. Kunthu was the son of S fir a by S r i, of the same race and complexion as the last, was also bom at Hastinapur. His Sasana was Bala ; his cognizance is a goat (chhdga) ; his height was thirty-five poles, and his life 95,000 years. His nirvana is dated in the last palya of the fourth age. 18. Ara was the son of Sudarsana by D o v l; his mark is the figure called Nandydvarta; he was of the same race and complexion, and bom at the same place as the preceding; his Sasana was Dharini: his stature was thirty poles, his life lasted 84,000 years, and his nir- vdna wa3 1,000 krdrs of years before the next Jina. 19. Malli was son of K u m b h a by Prabhavati; of the same race with the preceding, but of blue complexion; his mark • Wilson, Mackenzie Coll., vol. I., pp. 148-152. t The life of this Jina is the object of a separate work being a water-jar (ghata) ; he was bom at Mithila, and his Sasana Devi was Dharana- p r i y a ; he was twenty-five poles high, lived 55.000 years, and was deified 6,584,000 years before the close of the fourth age. 20. Munisuvrata, Suvrata, or Muni, was son of Sumitra by Pa dm a, of the Harivansa race, and of black complexion; he was bom at Rajagriha ; has a tortoise (karma) for his cogni¬ zance, and N aradatta for his devi; his height was twenty poles, and his age 30,000 years. He died 1,184,000 years before the end of the fourth age. 21. Nimi was son of Y i j a y a by V i p r a ; bom at Mithila, of the race of Ikshvaku; figured with a golden complexion; having for his mark a blue water-lily (nUotpala), and for his Sasana, G a n d h a r i Devi. His stature was fifteen poles; his life 10,000 years; and his apotheosis took place, like the preceding eight Jinas, on Samet Sikhar or Mount Parsvanatha, 584.000 years before the expiration of the fourth age. 22. Nemi, or Arishtanemi, was the son of King Samudravijaya by his queen Siva; of the Harivaiisa race, of black complexion, with the conch (sahklia) for his symbol, and A m b i k a for hi8 Sasana Devi. The Kalpa Sutra says he was bora in Sravan, the first month of the rainy season, under tho constellation Chaitra, at Soriyapuri, which Stevenson sup¬ poses to be Agra, but which is generally be¬ lieved to have been a town in Kathiawad. It is said that he excelled in all kinds of athletic exer • cises and was of invincible strength. His cousin Krishna was also of superhuman strength, and was able to blow a large conch from which it was believed no other person could produce a blast. One day Neminatha saw it lying on tho ground, and asking why that toy was lying th^re,1 he took it up and blew such a blast upon it as quite alarmed Krishna who began to enquire* who it was that could blow upon his saiikha ? On finding it was his cousin, he became jealous of him as a rival, and accordingly directed his hundred gopis to excite amorous thoughts in Neminatha and shame him into marriage, think¬ ing intercourse with women the only w'ay to put down his strength. The gopis Began to tease him and tell him as he was grown up to manhood entitled S&nti Purina.—Colebrooke, Essays, ut eup. p. 211 u., Asiat. Res. IX. p. 308.