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Padmapurana
Samaiya, the first, Vidiya, the second, and Posaha, the third, are said. The fourth is Sallekhana at the end. ||26||
-Charittrapahuḍ
Five are the Anuvvaya, three are the Gunavvaya, it is said. Four are the Sikkhavaani, the Jina's wishes. ||112||
Thullayaram, Panivahan, Musavaayam, Adattadaan, and Parajuvaai's Nivatti, Santoshavayam, the fifth. ||113||
Disivi-disa's Niyamo, Anaththadandas's Vajjan, and Uvabhog-parimaanam, these three are the Gunavvaya. ||114||
Samaiya, Uvvaas-Posaha, Atihisanvibhaago, and Samahimaran at the end, these four are the Sikkhaasuvaya. ||115||
-Paumcharia U.14
Apart from this, the following verse from Acharya Kundakunda's Pravachnasara is also available in Paumcharia with some word changes.
The karma that the ignorant one eats, with thousands of crores of births, that karma the wise one eats with a single breath. ||38||
-Pravachnasara A. 3
The karma that the ignorant tapaswi eats, with thousands of crores of births, that karma the wise one eats with a single breath, the great one. ||177||
-Paumcharia U. 102
In such a situation, the composition of Paumcharia cannot be before Kundakunda. The time of Kundakunda is found to be approximately the latter half of the first century and the early half of the second century of the Vikram era. It cannot be said to be after the third century in any way. In such a situation, the time of the creation of Paumcharia, which is said to be 6 CE, does not seem to be consistent. Muni Kalyanvijayji has stated the time of Kundakunda to be the sixth century CE. According to his belief, he will either have to state Paumcharia to be a text after the sixth century CE or show Sallekhana (Samadhimaran) as the fourth Sikkhaavrat in some Shvetambara text written before 60 CE. Otherwise, the time of Kundakunda will have to be accepted as before 60 CE.
[3] Comparing the sutras of the Tattvarth Sutra written by Umashvati with some places in Paumcharia, a great similarity in words and a good understanding of the style of the statement sequence is found. And this similarity of words, etc., does not have as much connection with the Shvetambara commentary-accepted text as it seems to have with the Digambara Sutra text. Not only this, but also the sutras which have not been given a place in the commentary-accepted text and about which the commentators of the commentary, Haribhadra and Siddhasena Gani, state in their commentary that here some other scholars put many new sutras on their own for the sake of expansion, many of these sutras are found in this text according to the Digambara tradition-accepted Sutra text. Here, for the information of the readers, some comparisons of the sutras of Tattvarth Sutra and the verses of Paumcharia are given below. 1. See, Anekanta Varsh 2 Kiran 1 First Article, 'Who is the predecessor in Shri Kundakunda and Yativrisham?' and
The English introduction of Pravachnasara by Prof. A.N. Upadhyay. 2. Apere Punarvidvanso'ti Bahuni Swayam Virchayasmin Prastave Sutraanyadhiyate Vistardarshanabhipraayena
Siddhasena Gani, Tattva. Bha. T. 3, 11 Page 261.