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Führer at Muttra, an evidence nearly two thuusand years old, to support those traditions. You know Prof. Bühler has edited inany inscriptions of the Jains in Epigraphia Indica, vols. I and II. These inscriptions are two thousand years old. They bear the Samvat of the Indo-Scythian Kings, Kanishka, Huvashka, and Vasudeva in these inscriptions we read that images were dedicated by lay Jains to Rishabha. For instance, see the following inscriptions :
NO. VIII. "Success! In the year 10 (60) of the great king (and) supreme king of kings, Deva Putra Huvashka, in the furth month of winter on the tenth day,--on that (clate specified as) above, (this) meritorious gift (was made for the sake of grcat happiness by Datta, the wife of k'a Pasaka, an inhabitant cf...vata, (at the request) of................ganin, the vencrable Kharnna, pupil of the preacher, the venerable Vriddhahasti out of the Kottiyagana, the Sthanikiya Kula (and) the Sakha of the Aryya-Veriyas (the followers of AryaVajra). May the Divine (and) glorious Rishabha be pleascal."
P. 386, vol. I. No. XIV. "Success! The pupil of the venerable Jeshtahasti (Jyeshthahastin) out of the Kottiyagana, the Bralımadasika Kula, the Uchche-nagari Sakha and the arina sumbhaga (was) the venerable Mahala ; the pupil of the venerable Jeshtahasti (Jyeshthahastin)
