They have no (visible) form, they consist of
life throughout, they are developed into knowledge and faith, they
have crossed the boundary of the Sa[.m]sara, and reached the excellent
state of perfection."
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Like both the Brahma[n.]s and Buddhists, the Jainas have a series of
hells--Narakas, numbering even which they name--
1. Ratnaprabha;
2. ['S]arkaraprabha;
3. Valukaprabha;
4. Pa[.n]kaprabha;
5. Dhumaprabha;
6. Tamaprabha;
7. Tamatamaprabha.
[Footnote: _Ratnasagara_, bh. II, p. 607; _Jour. As_. u.s. p. 263.]
Those who inhabit the seventh hell have a stature of 500 poles, and in
each above that they are half the height of the one below it.
Everything in the system as to stature of gods and living beings, their
ages and periods of transmigration is reduced to artificial numbers.
The Jaina Gachhas.
About the middle of the tenth century there flourished a Jaina high priest
named Uddyotana, with whose pupils the eighty four gachhas originated.
This number is still spoken of by the Jainas, but the lists that have been
hitherto published are very discordant. The following was obtained from a
member of the sect as being their recognised list,--and allowing for
differences of spelling, nearly every name may be recognised in those
previously published by Mr. H.
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