ra.
2. Dhatuki-kha[n.][d.]a purva-bharata.
3. Dhatuki-kha[n.][d.]a pa['s]chima-bharata.
4. Pushkararddha purva-bharata.
5. Pushkaravaradvipa pa['s]chima-bharata.
6. Jambudvipa airavata-kshetra.
7. Dhatuki-kha[n.][d.]a purva-airavata.
8. Dhatuki-kha[n.][d.]a pa['s]chima-airavata.
9. Pushkarardhadvipa purva-airavata.
10. Puskararddha pa['s]chima-airavata.

To each of these is allotted twenty four past, present and future Atits or
Jinas,--making in all 720 of this class, for which they have invented
names: but they are only names. [Footnote: See _Ratnasagara_, bh.
II, pp. 696--705.]

Of the Tirthakaras of the present age or _avasarpini_ in the
Bharata-varsha of Jambudvipa, however, we are supplied with minute
details:--their names, parents, stations, reputed ages, complexions,
attendants, cognizances (_chihna_) or characteristics, etc. and these
details are useful for the explanation of the iconography we meet with in
the shrines of Jaina temples. There the images of the Tirthakaras are
placed on highly sculptured thrones and surrounded by other smaller
attendant figures. In temples of the ['S]vetambara sect the images are
generally of marble--white in most cases, but often black for images of
the 19th, 2Oth, 22nd and 23rd Jinas. On the front of the throne or
_asana_ are usually carved three small figures: at the proper right
of the Jina is a male figure representing the Yaksha attendant or servant
of that particular Jina; at the left end of the throne is the
corresponding female--or Yakshini, Yakshi or ['S]asanadevi; whilst in a
panel in the middle there is often another devi. At the base of the seat
also, are placed nine very small figures representing the _navagraha_
or nine planets; that is the sun, moon, five planets, and ascending and
descending nodes.

In the Jaina _Puranas_, legends are given to account for the
connexion of the Yakshas and Yakshis with their respective Tirthakaras:
thus, in the case of Par['s]vanatha, we have a story of two brothers
Marubhuti and Kama[t.]ha, who in eight successive incarnations were always
enemies, and were finally born as Par['s]vanatha and Sambaradeva
respectively. A Pasha[n.][d.]a or unbeliever, engaged in the
_panchagni_ rite, when felling a tree for his fire, against the
remonstrance of Par['s]vanatha, cut in pieces two snakes that were in it;
the Jina, however restored them to life by means of the
_panchamantra_. They were then re-born in Patala-loka as
Dhara