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Samavāyāngasūtra
30. Arabhadabhasola dance. 31. Uppayanivayapavatta, sarkuciya, pasāriya, rayāraiya and bḥantasa-hānta
dance. 32. In this drama the actors and actresses forming a row represented the story
of Mahāvīra's early life, his conception, exchange of foetus, birth, , childhood, youth, sport, renunciation, penance, attainment of omniscience, the deliverence of sermons and ultimately his emancipation.
1. Abhayadevasūri, Sthānārgasūtra and Samavāyāngasūtra, comm. on Samavāya 32, p. 56.
2. Rājapraśniyasūtra, Uvangasuttāni, vol. 4, pt. 1, Ladnun, 69/113.
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