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As a result of this, the place of the Tattvartha-bhashya in the Achhel tradition has been entirely removed due to the attainment of complete goal fulfillment and its becoming highly esteemed. Despite contemplating, there has yet to be any answer to the question of how, in one way or another, the Sachel tradition has managed to maintain the Anga texts until now; why has the Achhel tradition allowed the Anga scriptures to nearly perish, despite not being less in intellect, scriptural devotion, and diligence than the Sachel tradition? Given that the eminent figures of the Achhel tradition, like Kundakunda, Pujyapada, and Samantabhadra, have preserved such a vast scripture collection, there was no reason they could not maintain certain essential portions of the Anga scripture up until today. Even when looking beyond the Anga scriptures, the question remains as to how smaller texts such as the Dashvaikālika and Uttarādhyayana, as indicated by Pujyapada, became lost from the Achhel tradition, while larger texts have consistently remained in that tradition. After considering all these matters, I have come to the firm conclusion that the flow of the original Anga scriptures has survived numerous inevitable transformations and continues to exist today, which is fully recognized by the Shvetambara sect and wholly denied by the Digambara sect.
In this context of scripture, it is necessary to draw the attention of historians to a question. Pujyapada and Akalanka have referred to the Dashvaikālika and Uttarādhyayana. Not only that, the unyielding Acharya, a supporter of nakedness, even wrote a commentary on the Dashvaikālika. They have also composed commentaries on the Bhagavati Aradhana. In such a situation, why has the propagation of the Dashvaikālika and Uttarādhyayana vanished from the entire Digambara tradition? When we observe that many texts such as the Mulachara and Bhagavati Aradhana, which also exceptionally delineate the monk's clothing and other attributes and depict the journey of the Aryikas, which do not provide as forceful an exposition of the monk's conduct as the Dashvaikālika and Uttarādhyayana, are uniformly recognized in the entire Digambara tradition, upon which many renowned Digambara scholars have commented in Sanskrit...