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In the Digambara literature up to the 68th century, the distinctiveness and prestige that emerged certainly remain incomplete. Being sectarian, these two works deserve a unique place in Indian philosophical literature from many perspectives. Their examination sheds historical light on numerous subjects and texts from the Buddhist and Vedic traditions.
Now, after briefly introducing the commentaries composed on the original sutras, it is time to familiarize ourselves with the commentaries pertaining to these interpretations. At present, two commentaries are fully available, which are Śvetāmbara. The main similarity between these two is that they both touch upon and explain Umāsvāti's self-revealed commentary word for word. While explaining the commentary, they present the Agamic content everywhere by relying on the commentary, and even where the commentary seems to contradict the Agama, ultimately support the Agamic tradition; this is the common goal of both these works. Despite this similarity, there are also differences between the two. One work, which has substantial proof, is the creation of a single Acharya, while the other, the smaller work, is a composite text by three Acharyas.
In the larger commentary, approximately eighteen thousand shlokas are referenced at the end of the chapters, where it typically mentions 'bhāṣyanusāriṇī,' while in the smaller commentary, each chapter has somewhat different references. Sometimes it refers to 'Haribhadra-vira-chitāyam' (in the introduction of the first chapter), or 'Haribhadra-uddhṛtāyam' (at the end of the second, fourth, and fifth chapters), sometimes it states 'Haribhadra-arabdhāyam' (at the end of the sixth chapter), and at other times 'prārabdhāyam' (at the end of the seventh chapter). Here it mentions 'Yaśobhadrācārya-nidhāyam' (at the end of the sixth chapter), and again 'Yaśobhadra-sūri-śiṣya-nirvahitāyam' (at the end of the tenth chapter), while in between it states 'tatravānyakartṛkāyam' (at the end of the eighth chapter) and 'tasyāmevānyakartṛkāyam' (at the end of the ninth chapter). Observing the lack of stylistic coherence and appropriate context in all these references, it must be stated that these references do not belong to the original author. Haribhadra would have written at the end of his five chapters...