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( 38 ) was born. In the beginning of the world when Brahma crcated Swayambhu Manu and Satya Rupa. He was fifth in descent from them. He lived by the end of the first Kritayuga and twenty-eight Kritayugas are to pass in this Manvantara. This Rishabha preached Jainisny. in Shlokas 9---11 of the Sixth Adhyaya, the author of the Bhagavata speaks of one Arhat, a Raja of Konka, Venka, and Nata, who, he says, hearing of the Charitra of Rishabha from his countrymen, would start in Kaliyuga a religion the followers of which would hate the Brahmanas and go to hell. __ यस्य किशानुचरितमाश्रमातीत मुपाक दयं का वेत कुटकानां राजारनामो पशिष्य कन्तावधर्म उरकष्य माणेभवितव्येन विमोहितः खधर्म पथमकुतोभयमप हाय कुपथपा खण्डम समन्जसं निजमनीषयामन्दः सम्प्रवर्तयिष्यते ॥
ये नवावकलौ मनुजापमदादेव माया मोहिताः स्वविधि नियोग शौच चारित्र विहीनादेव हेलनान्यप ब्रतानि निज निजेच्छ या गाना अस्नानाना चमनाशौच के शोल्लुजनादौनि कलिनाधर्म' बटुलेनो पहनधि यो ब्रा ब्राह्मण या पुरुष लोक विदुषकाः प्रायेण भविष्यन्ति ॥१०॥
सेचद्याक्ति नयानिजलोकयायाध परम्परयाखस्तास्तमस्यन्धे खयमेव प्रपतिष्यन्ति ११ पंचम स्कन्ध प्र.६.
No such Raja has ever lived, nor in any other Brahmanical writing where the word Arhat occurs is he spoken of as a Raja of Konka, Vanka, and Nata, so far as I have been able to ascertain. Arhat means praiseworthy if the word be derived from Arh to praise;
