Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c15.s1.t3.3

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¹⁰⁵ The Vijjāharas also appears in the *Bharhut Inscriptions* (209). The *Vijjāharas* are said to be a king of sem-human beings possessing the knowledge of magic arts and resident in the Himalaya mountains (Hoernle’s Readings from the Bharhut stūpa). In the *Kusa-jātaka* (No. 391) III, p. 303 f. they are described as a being given to night dalliance and seduction, and accustomed to perform by day penance by standing in a ment in a cremation ground, standing on one leg while saluting the sun cf. *Kusa-Jātaka* (No. 436), III, p. 528. The *Vāyupurāṇa* (LXIX) enumerates three original groups of *Vijjāharas*, which gave rise to several gems of the *Kumāra* clan. *Inscriptions*, p. 89 f; Barua and Sinha, also see *Mārkaṇḍeya*, pp. 401-41.