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Bhagavati I-XX. Our study of the canonical texts is concentrated on the abovementioned texts, and the other Angabahya texts belonging to the fifth stage are excluded from our examination, for their chronological dates are definitively known already. The Sthana and the Samavaya, which form the third and the fourth Angas, are also excluded from our treatment, for their numerically ordered collection of the conceptual items developed in the long course of the canonical period does not render much help for our porpose.
The later interpolated portions in each canonical text taken up in this chapter are as a rule placed in parentheses. The reasoning for and the testification of their accretions in later times are generally not offered herein, but they become self-evident in Chapter II where a subject analysis of the Bhagavati contents and their chronological evaluation are made in a historical context. The canonical texts are based on the Sutta game in two volumes, excluding the following texts: Acaranga (Agamodaya Samiti, 1916), Sutrakrtanga
(Agamodaya Samiti, 1917), Uttaradhyayana (Atmananda Sabha, 1918) and Dasavaikälika (Devchand Lalbhai Jaina Pustakoddhar, 1918).
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