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CXXVIII
INTRODVOTION
opening verse. Mānadeva Sūri in its com. gives its Sk, equivalent 'Śrāvakadharma' and refers to it as a tantra both in the beginning and at the end (v. I). It seems that in some MS. there is a line as under :
"इति श्रीमानदेवसूरिरचिता श्रावकधर्मविधिप्रकरणस्य वृत्तिः परिसमाप्तेति".
On this basis this work is named by some as Strāvakadharmavidhiprakarana, the title we have in its edition published by Sanghavi Nagindas Karamchand in 1940 A. D.
The poem deals with samyaktva, the twelve vows of the Jaina laity, their partial trangressions, samlekhanā, and the daily duties of a Sravaka. In v. 2 the work sāvaga' is defined. The commentary quotes from several works of our author and is very lacid.
The commentator in the end names the author as Haribhadra, and in the last verse of this poem we have the phrase 'bhava-viraha'. So one can say that this Sāvagadhamma comes from the pen of our author.
Gopipura, Surat. 3rd June, 1947
H. R. KAPADIA
1 In this edition of 1940 we have & Sk. rendering of the text in
Jažņa Marahatthi. In the beginning there is an intro, in Guj., detailed account of contents, and an alphabetical index of the verses of the text.
