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There is no auspicity litany in KP whereas SK has an authorcomposed litany. There are also no concluding words as in other texts.
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07.
The language level of KP predates SK. It is a post-exposition era text (i.e. later than first century CE). The Digambaras mention of the expositions in Samantabhadra's book of 3rd Century C.E. (Samādhi Bhakt) cannot be taken as more authentic. The composition of singleexposition texts is a later development over multi-exposition
text. 06. There is no mention of disquisition doors in KP in as
systematic form as in SK, though the concepts of positing and standpoints are utilised there. The teaching of KP to Arya Mankşu and Nāgahasti and later to Yativrsabha through them (whose period is taken as 5-6th Century CE) also confirms the period of second-century CE
for Guņadhara as stated earlier. 08. In many places, the opinions in KP and SK vary. Still
Vīrasena calls them as valid on their scriptural base. 09. He has dealt with the first five chapters related with Mahā
karma-payadi-pāhuda in three verses only. This indicates that
its study was quite popular in his days. 10. Gunadhara was proficient in MKPP as well as PDP in
contrast with Dharasena proficient only in MKPP.
However, it is not possible to state the quantum of seniority between the KP and SK authors. One can assume when Dharasena was young; Gunadhara must have gone adult or old. Thus, seniority of about 25 years may be surmised. Accordingly, if the period of
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