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LXII : CANDRAVEDHYAKA PRAKĪRŅAKA
70 verses have been taken from Āturapratyākhyāna and 66 out of 190 verses of 'Şadāvaśyaka' are from Āvaśyaka Niryukti. On the basis of these evidences, it can be said that the prakīrņakas have not only been acceptable to the Svetāmibaras but also to the Yā panīya tradition of North Indian Acela order.
Major absorption of the verses of some prakīrņakas into Mūlācāra and Bhagavatī-ārādhanā of the Yāpaniīya tradition only proves that this literature was acceptable to the this tradition. However, after the writing of treatises like Mūlā cāra and Bhagavatī-ārādhanā, the tradition of studying the prakīrņakas, too, became extinct in the Yāpaniya and Digambara traditions.
Either directly or indirectly through Mūlācāra and Bhagavatī Ārādhanā of the Yāpaniya tradition, many verses of the prakīrņaka literature have found their way in the works of Acārya Kundakunda. Some verses of Candravedhyaka prakīrņaka are also available in Kundakunda's works. It seems that these verses may have been taken from Mūlācāra and Bhagavati Arādhanā rather than directly from the prakīrņakas.
From the point of view of comparative study, the question - 'Whether the identical verses found in prakīrņakas as well as in the canonical works, niryuktis and other works of the Yāpanīya and Digambara tradition, have been taken from the former into the latter or vicēversa?' – also raises its head. To give a clear answer to this question is a serious problem. As we have mentioned earlier that in the chapters of Uttarādhyayanasūtra, except for the 29th chapter, these verses seem to be their original part only. Therefore, the possibility cannot be ruled out that these verses were taken from Uttarādhyayanasūtra into Chandravedhyaka and other prakīrņakas, but the verses found in the 29th chapter of Uttarādhyayana and in Iñatādharmakathā and
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