Khapuṭa who lived in Broach, and the founding of Śatruñjaya ^1 in the state of Pālitāṇā.
Vajra-
svāmī.
The next spiritual leader ^2 of great importance for our
purpose was Vajrasvāmī, the last and greatest
of the Daśapūrvī.
It was in his time that the sixth schism took place.
A Jaina sādhu called Rohagupta ^3 taught that there are not
seven but only three constituent elements of the earth, viz.:
Jīva, Ajīva and Nojīva; the schism is accordingly called
the Nojīva schism and is believed to have arisen in a. d. 71.
A seventh schism, led by Goṣṭa Mahāl, also took place
under Vajrasvāmī's rule. The Jaina believe that Vajrasvāmī
was able to call up at will a magic carpet which conveyed
him and his friends to any distance, and that once by its
means he transplanted the whole community from a famine-
stricken district to the town of Purī. The more enlightened
Jaina say that this carpet really represents some modern
mode of locomotion (steam engine, motor car, or aeroplane)
the secret of whose construction Vajrasvāmī had anticipated.
Vajrasvāmī had a famous disciple, Āryarakṣita, who had
originally been a Brāhman and had studied all knowledge at
Benares. His mother spurred him on to study the Jaina
Pūrva, and whilst doing so he was converted to Jainism and
learnt from Vajrasvāmī the whole of the nine-and-a-half
Pūrva. He is famous amongst the Jaina for having arranged
the Sūtra into four divisions that they might be the more
easily understood.
Vajra-
sena.
The
Great
Schism
We now come to the great division of the community.
Vajrasvāmī was followed by Vajrasena, and under his
leadership the Digambara finally separated from the main
community. The new Head had not the personality of his
^1 Śatruñjaya, the Jaina say, was built by a monk who had the power of rising through the air, and by a disciple of his who had the power of creating gold. This fortunate conjunction of talents has resulted in one of the loveliest temple cities in the world.
2 Indradinna had been followed by Dinnasūri, and he by Siṁhagiri, and then came Vajrasvāmī.
^3 Rohagupta had a disciple called Kaṇāda who was, according to the Jaina, the founder of the famous Vaiśeṣika philosophy.
