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PREFACE : XV The above-mentioned classification, found in the Nandīsūtra and the Pāksikasūtra, mentions only nine Prakirnakas in all. Of these two names – Rsībhasita and Dvīpasägara-prajñapti are found under the classification of Kālika Āgamas or the timely studiable canonical texts and the rest seven - Devendrastava, Tandulavaicārika, Candrakavedhyaka, Ganīvidya, Maranavibhakti, Āturapratyākhyāna and Mahāpratyākhyāna – are found under the Utkālika Āgamas or the anytime studiable scriptures. This classification, however, nowhere mentions the Sārāvali-painnayam or Sārāvalī Prakirnaka. Even the Tattvārtha Bhāsya and the Commentary on the Tattvārthasūtra, in the Digamibara tradition (whose clergy remains sky-clad or naked), that lists fourteen Angabāhya (extra primary canonical texts), does not contain any mention of Sārāvali Prakirnaka, Similarly, though the texts such as Uttaradhyayanasūtra, Daśavaikälikasūtra, Daśāśrutaskandha, Vyavahāra, Vrhatkalpa, Jītskalpa and Niśīthasūtra etc. find their mention in the commentaries of the texts of the Yāpanīya tradition such as Mūlācāra, Bhagavatī-ārādhanā etc., but there, too, the Säravali Prakirnaka has not been mentioned anywhere.
In Vidhimārgaprapā by Acārya Jinaprabha (Circa 14th century AD) and in the Siddhāntāgamastava vrtti by Visalarāja, wherein the mention of many a Prakirnaka such as Devendrastava, Tandulavaicārika, Maranasamadhi, Mahāpratyākhyāna, etc. is available, Sārāvali Prakirnaka has not been mentioned. Therefore, though not authentically but
3. (a) Nandi Sūtra, Ed. Muni Madhukara, Āgama Prakāśana Samiti,
Beawar, 1982, pp 161-162. (b) Pāksika Sūtra, Devacandra Lāl
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