ti or Nata. The similarity between these
words and the names of the family Jnati, Jnata or Naya, to which
Vardhamana belonged is apparent. Now since in older Buddhist literature,
the title 'the son of the man of the family N. N.' is very often used
instead of the individual's name, as for example, 'the son of the Sakiya'
is put for Buddha-Sakiyaputta, so that it is difficult not to suppose that
Nataputta or Jnatiputra, the leader of the Niga[n.][t.]ha or Nirgrantha
sect, is the same person as Vardhamana, the descendant of the Jnati family
and founder of the Nirgrantha or Jaina sect. If we follow up this idea,
and gather together the different remarks of the Buddhists about the
opponents of Buddha, then it is apparent that his identity with Vardhamana
is certain. A number of rules of doctrine are ascribed to him, which are
also found among the Jainas, and some events in his life, which we have
already found in the accounts of the life of Vardhamana, are related.

In one place in the oldest part of the Singalese canon, the assertion is
put into the mouth of Niga[n.][t.]ha Nataputta, that the
_Kiriyavada_--the doctrine of activity, separates his system from
Buddha's teaching. We shall certainly recognise in this doctrine, the rule
of the _Kiriya_, the activity of souls, upon which Jainism places so
great importance. [Footnote: Jacobi, _Zeitschrift der Deutsch. Morg.
Ges._ Bd. XXXIV, S. 187; _Ind. Antiq._ Vol. IX, p. 159.] Two other
rules from the doctrine of souls are quoted in a later work, not
canonical: there it is stated, in a collection of false doctrines which
Buddha's rivals taught, that Niga[n.][t.]ha asserts that cold water was
living. Little drops of water contained small souls, large drops, large
souls. Therefore he forbade his followers, the use of cold water. It is
not difficult, in these curious rules to recognise the Jaina dogma, which
asserts the existence of souls, even in the mass of lifeless elements of
earth, water, fire, and wind. This also proves, that the Niga[n.][t.]ha
admitted the classification of souls, so often ridiculed by the
Brahma[n.]s, which distinguishes between great and small. This work, like
others, ascribes to Niga[n.][t.]ha the assertion, that the so-called three
_da[n.][d.]a_--the three instruments by which man can cause injury to
creatures--thought, word, and body, are separate active causes of sin. The
Jaina doctrine agrees also in this case, which always specially represents
the th