Ardha Magadhi Reader

SR No.: 006743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B D Jain
Publisher: Shri Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 246
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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( xliv ) and amend the corrupt passages and in fact to rearrange the subject matter of the whole canon. Then he caused the canon to be copied in numerous sets to protect it from similar calamities in future.
Since the time of Devardhigaại, the scriptures have undergone many and important alterations. The Nandí Sutra written by Devardhigasi himself contains a description of the contents and the subdivisions of the scriptures. Much information on this subject is also found in the Tháŋamga and Samaváyamga. But all these sources are at variance among themselves and they greatly differ from the actual state in which the canon now exists. Thus it is clear that the scriptures have been liable to numerous changes even after the time of Devardhigaại. It is not strange, therefore, to find the language of the scriptures differing from the language in which they were originally composed. As the stronghold of Jainism shifted towards the west, and as the council under Devardhigaội was held at Valabhi in Kathiawad, the language of the canon must have been made to conform to the western type,
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Jaina Sáhitya Samsodhaka, Vol. I, part I, p. 53 (Guj.)