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story that from the sivlinga of Mahākāla emerged the idol of a Jaina god, as soon as Divākara began to pray, is quite natural from the point of Jaina tradition which regards Mahā kāla as a holy place of the Jainas,
7. (a) Now about the works of Divā kara the refer. ence, as found in the oldest and the smallest prose composition referred to above, is that when Divákara in course of his prayers in the temple of Kudanga came to the end of the last verse of his 32nd Dwatrimśikā? the image of Parś wanātha suddenly appeared. The same statement is found in the later verse composition.”
In the prose composition it is said that Divákara composed the Dwatrimśikās. But the poetic version it is suggested that the chapters of the Batrisis are 32 in number, while in the prose composition it is said that each chapter contained 32 verses. In the Prabhāvaka Carita, 8 written after the verse composition, 32 chapters are mentioned, but in addition, some more account is given
1 "सिद्धसेणेण पारद्धा बत्तीसियाहिं जिणथुई x x तेण कुडंगेसर सोसाओ नीसरन्ती पाससामिपडिमा कमंकमेण य बत्तीसइमबत्तीसिया समत्तीए qièguai ši a u facut rare als "--Kathāvali (not printed).
2 "atarata Qui arai feruyt fraft 11
बत्तीसाहिं बत्तीसियाहिं उद्दामसदेण ॥ यथा
after this are given the four verses forfera saath etc. (See p. 30 n. 1) and after that the verse
एवं कमंकमेणं अन्तिमबत्तीसियाय पञ्जते ।
afegranita Te quieran qaqaft Verse--Composition. 3 See p. 30,
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