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The present volume consists of three agamas-Oväiyam, Rāyapaseṇiyam and Jīvājīvābhigame.
EDITORIAL
OVAIYAM
The text of Aupapātika sutra has been constituted on the basis of the manuscripts and the vrati. The references to different ancient versions in this sūtra are in abundance. It is a repository of descriptions. That is why we find at various places the instruction-jaha ovaväte (as in Ovaváia), referring to similar describers of the other agamas Neither the commentaries of those agamas nor their authentic texts of the latter contain the describers accepted in the Aupopatika. Those describers, however, are available in other versions. It poses a problem for those who study the describers.
The text of this Agama must be determined not only on the basis of adarsas and vriti but also on the basis of the describers available in the agamic commentaries and the texts of the other agamas. But it is difficult to do so without the compilation of the totality of describers.
Some of the describers are as follows:
Bhagavai :
7/175 evam jaha ovaväe jäva
7/176 evam jahä uvavâie, evath jaha uvavāie
7/196 jaha kupio java payacchitte
9/157: "jaha ovaväie java egabhimuhe" "evam jaha ovaväje jäva tivihäe" 9/158 "jaha ovaväie java satthavaha" "jaha ovavšie java khattiyakupḍaggǎme"
9/162 ovavâie parisă vappao taha bhāniyavvath
9/204: "jaha ovaväie java gaganatalamanulihant!" "evam jahā ovavšie taheva bhāniyavvam"
9/204 jaha ovaväie java mahāpurisa
9/208 jahi ovaväje java abhinandată
9/209 evath jaha ovaväie kupio java piggacchai
11/59 jaha ovavāie
11/61 jaha ovaväie küpiyassa
11/85 jaha ovaväie java gahanaya
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