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The Title Daśavaikālika Sūtra
Even from the earliest times, it appears, there was no agreement among the traditional writers about the form and the interpretation of the name of the work usually known as the Daśavaikālika Sūtra. Like many other works of the Ardha-Māgadhi canon there is no occasion to give the title name either in the introductory or concluding portions of the text. References in other works and the comments upon it are also not unanimous.
In the Nandi Sūtra', where a list of the works forming the canon is given, we find the name of the work in the form Dasaveyāliya, and stands at the beginning of the Ukkāliya section of the Suyanāna. Bhadrabāhu, the oldest commentator of this text, used in his Nijjutti? the form Dasakāliya six times (w. I, 7; twice, 12, 14, 25) and the form Dasaveyāliya twice (v. 6, 397). Of these two forms of the title, he decidedly favours the first as the name of the work and he used the second only incidentally. This will be clear from the fact that in all the three places (w. 7, 12, 15) where an attempt is made to explain the name the form is invariably Dasakāliya and not Dasaveyāliya. Jinadāsamahattara in his Cūrņi? on the text, however, and following him Haribhadra in his Sanskrit Tikā, usually use the form Dasaveyāliya, even though the other form is found in their works incidentally (Cūrni, p. 4, Hari. p. 1). They have not seen any discrepancy between the two names and explain the title always in the form of Dasaveyāliya.
No material help can be derived from the names of the other books of the canon. Even though the first word of the name, Dasa occurs in many names of the canonical works, and according to W. Schubring“ all these works form a group by themselves, the meaning of the word is clear and it always refers to the number of the chapters found in the particular book. It is only in case of the Vanhidasāo that we find a disagreement between the title and the number of the chapters. In the present case also, there is no objection to take the word to mean ten chapters, because the additional two sections are