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at Temples
On Inscriptions
XXVIII
H.
T.
Colebrooke,
Dir.
Esq.,
By
R.A.S.
18, 1826.
Read November
to current
in the same neighbourhood.
belief,
according
In the Calpa-sutra
the first of Mahavj'ra's
of the Jainas,
and in other books
bhuti
: but,
name
in the
is
Indra
of
mentioned
under
the
disciples
under
scription,
same
is the
with
I subjoin Dr.
where
situation,
as was
vince
by
the
him
ten
other
first of one
other.
the
of
with
found,
the
concerning
satisfaction,
of
also,
Francklin's
Jina,
description
on the
erected
ceding
It is certainly
probable,
the Gautama
that
maine,
personag
were
inscriptions
the
the Gautama,
account
Hamilton's
of
Srdwacs
the
such
or Jainas
information
in the
same
pro
(South Bihar).
I have
William
Buchanan
of
first
bhuti,
names
The
it is to be concluded,
Indra
these
collected
svvami.
of Gautama
agree : whence
precisely
list,
that
in
*: and
this
leads
as
of
to the Society,
communicating
of Parswanat'ha,
the temple
supposed
remarked
of
the Jainas
to
the
site of
Colonel
the
pre
likewise.
his
apotheosis
and Major
Dela
Hamilton
Dr.
by
is the same
of the Bauddhas
and
further
surmise,
that
both
these
sects
are
one of Mahavi'ra's
to the Jainas,
only
According
successors:
succession
of
that
eleven
left spiritual
is, the entire
disciples
swami.
Sudharma
Two
is derived
Jaina
from one
individual,
only
priests
bhuti
: the
and
out of eleven
Indra
viz.
Sudharma
survived
Mahavira,
branches
of
one
stock.
As.
Res.?
ix.
p.
313.
Mr.
first,
identified
Jaina
sect.
with
none.
tenets
Gautama
no
has
swam.,
followers
Gautama's
in many
at Temples
521
spiritual
in
the
The
surviving disciple
been
on Inscriptions
Colebrooke
respects
constitute
to
analogous
sect
the
those
of
of
with
Bauddha,
or
the Jainas,
of
followers
or fabulous history
but with a mythology
Sudharma,
Both have adopted the Hindu Pantheon,
quite different.
subordinate
deities
their
elevate
the authority
; both disclaim
to divine
saints
pre-eminent
of deified saints
or assemblage of
of the vedas; and both
supremacy.
doctrine
than
sects,
on
subsists
between
It deserves
various
the divers
that
remark,
; but
points
branches
the
of
Bauddhas
more
hardly
the single
and
the
between
sect
Jainas
two
the
of Bauddha.
in
agree
placing
within the limits of the same province, South Bihar, and its immediate
the locality of the death and apotheosis of the last Buddha, as of
vicinity,
the last Jina, and of his predecessor
and his eldest and favourite disciple.
Both religions have preserved for their sacred language the same dialect, the
or Prdcrit,
Pali
a shade
Between
of difference,*
and
or
the Mdgadhi
resembling
(South Bihar).
Magadha
but
closely
those dialects
are often
they
vernacular
there is t
and Prdcrit)
(Pali
confounded
under
of
tongue
name.
single
of
Gautama
Mahavira,
about 600
half
a
preceptor
anachronism.
to remark,
era.
the Christian
too great
scarcely
of his
or
pupil;
that
the Buddha,
that Mahavira.
Casyapa.
I take
which
is
and
teacher,
for
the
was
The
viz.
earlier,
interval
so much
not
somewhat
between
too great
the
as_to
than
death
of
amount
to
Without
and
before
years
a century
swami's
Gautama
buddha,
preceded
was
of Gautama
swami,
to have
Pars'wanat'ha
was
wiio
the preceptor
confirmed
*
and
Burnouf
been
thoroughly
et Lassen,
the
founder
of
established
Essai
.SY 2
sur
le Pali.
the
of
sect
by Mahavira
p.
154.
was Cas'yapa
the
race
of
of Jainas,
and his
522
Mr.
at Temples
on Inscriptions
Colebrooke
and his
disciple Sudharma ; by whom, and by his followers, both MahavIra
predecessor Pars' wan at'ha have been venerated as deified saints (Jinas),
and are so worshipped by the sect to this day.
A
elder
schism,
however,
disciple,
Indra
his followers
seems
to have
also
BHtrri,
after Mahavi'ra,
taken
place,
Gautama
named
was
swami,
whose
by
some
of
with
raised
Sramana
a
SiddMrflia,
Vardliamdna
suryavansi
that
coincidence,
father
Una's
lineage,
among Buddhas
as above
noticed,
of
wife)
to
be
to this
weight
common
is
I suppose
whom
to Mahavira's
same
the
a patronymic
is unquestionably
come
have
the
with
(derived
other
designated
from
as descendant
it, whether
by
wiiatever
or for
cause.
His
pre
by a patronymic
viz.
Casyapa.
occurs
of Gautama
name
attaching much
Siddhart'ha
sinlia may
Sdcya
nearer
or remoter,
decessor
The
however
the
swami.
appellative Gautama
however
of
buddha,
Gautama
disciple,
Gotama),
of that
name
the
to Gautama
and
The
without
of
(born
race.
the Casyapa
of
prince
It is to be observed,
son
Mahavira,
as
also
an
appellative
in other
instances
besides
of
The
where
gentile name of the last Buddha has prevailed in China and Japan,
he is best known under the designation of Sdcya. His appellation
current
remains
of Gautama
in countries
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to
two
Treatises
on
the Hindu
Law
of
Inheritance,
p.
x.
Mr.
on Inscriptions
Colebrooke
523
" In the
year 16S6 Samvat, on the 15th day of Vaisdc'ha sudi, the lotus
mother of T'ha
of Gautama
sw-Ami's feet was here placed by NihAlo,
Sangrama-Govardhana
(Thaccur),
son
dasa,
Tulasi
of T'ha.
son
dasa,
Vimala
same
The
restoring,
probably
is here
which
family,
the representation
pious
recorded
for
of Gautama
or more
erecting,
swAMi'sfeetat-N^AV/awr,
is in like manner
commemorated by three inscriptions, bearing date six
years later (viz. 1692 Samvat),* for the like pious office of erecting images
of
the
extinction
this
(as
is in those
of
with
the
his
eleven
towrn
at Pdxcapuri,
disciples,
to be the
stated
inscriptions
recur,
was)
family
of
or translation
(nirvana)
same names
The
and
of Mahavira
feet
or its vicinity,
wiiich,
to bliss.
those
of many
of Bihar,
other
a
where
inhabitants
persons,
numerous
congregation
of
descent
the
from
son
Bharata,
of
and Govardhana,
Sangrama
are
in those
dasa
and
Dr.
The
places
sect of Jain
of
or
universal
as an
joined
as names
supposed
sovereign,
of one
sons
brothers,
the
respects,
paramount
appellation
of two
to
reference
inscriptions
person,
of Tulasi
confirm
and
other.t
of the Jainas
of Temples
Description
bears
here
separated
In other
inscriptions
his wife Nihalo.
each
explain
councillor"
prime
minister
of the
prime
the first Jina Rishabha.
of
descendant
F.
Buchaxax
One
is a tank
of Nawddd
named
and Bhagalpur,
by
in South Bihar
two
M.R.A.S.
Hamiltox,
in the division
has
pilgrimage.
in South Bihar
Nakhaur,
about
a mile
and
from Nawddd,
and which
is of no great size, extending in its
It is choked with wreeds, especially
greatest
length from east to west.
The temple is on a small square island covered with a
the nelumbium.
covered
terrace of brick, and is a neat but inconsiderable building,
half north
*
f
The
Copies
largest
of those
of those
at
names
inscriptions
Pawapuri
were
not
likewise
taken
the
reigning
in fac-simile,
Emperor,
are
hut
Shah
merely
Jehax.
transcripts.
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