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THE KALPA SÚTRA.
BOOK I.
THE LIFE OF MAHÁVÍRA*.
CHAPTER I.
HIS INCARNATION.
Adoration to the sages who have risen to be worthy of divine honour. Adoration to those who have attained perfection. Adoration to those who regulate our religious services. Adoration to our
*The proper name of the last Tirthankar is Vardhamána, but both in this work and in common usage the above epithet, meaning the Hero, has so completely usurped the place of the other, that it would be affectation to make the required substitution in the translation.
