Storia do Mogor 281.23.3

281.23.3

The Bandouki (Binduka) is the sign and mark of the Zaina (Jain) sect, people who reject the ablutions and bathings in rivers affected by the Brahmans. As the bases of salvation they adopt charity and penance, but these they expound very imperfectly, for those virtues are applied to none but insects. They accept, however, all the books and fables of the other Hindus. Out of all the idols they worship only Dadinata (Adinatha) and a certain Pitamber (Pitambara), whom they hold to be a divinity apart. He was the founder of this sect nearly thirteen hundred years ago. These people also mark themselves very often [71] with the tripound (tripund) above the other sign, as a testimony that although they are of this caste (Jains), they still believe in all the other false gods, having even a special reliance upon Amahedou (Mahadeva).