THE JINAS. 489
usually having a polycephalous snake1 overshadowing Mm ■with its
hoods.2
1 Dharana or Dharanidhara. the Naga King, Satrunjya Mdhat., xiv. 31-35; conf.
Bigandet, Legend of Gaudama (2nd ed.), p. 99; Hardy, Budhism, p. 182 ; Delamaine,
Tr. B. As. Soc, vol. i. pp. 428-436.
2 The best accounts we yet possess of the Jains and their tenets are the very brief
one by Groldstiicker in Chambers's Encyclopcedia ; by Colebrooke in his Essays, vol. ii.;
and by H. H. Wilson, Works, vol. i.
usually having a polycephalous snake1 overshadowing Mm ■with its
hoods.2
1 Dharana or Dharanidhara. the Naga King, Satrunjya Mdhat., xiv. 31-35; conf.
Bigandet, Legend of Gaudama (2nd ed.), p. 99; Hardy, Budhism, p. 182 ; Delamaine,
Tr. B. As. Soc, vol. i. pp. 428-436.
2 The best accounts we yet possess of the Jains and their tenets are the very brief
one by Groldstiicker in Chambers's Encyclopcedia ; by Colebrooke in his Essays, vol. ii.;
and by H. H. Wilson, Works, vol. i.