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UTTARADHYAYANA.
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selves into fire or water, and use things not prescribed by the rules of good conduct, are liable to be born and to die again and again. (Such persons realise the Môha-Bhâvanâ.) (266)
The enlightened and liberated Gñâtri(putra) has thus delivered Thirty-six Lectures of the Uttarâdhyayana', which the pious' approve of. (267)
1 Uttaragghâê in the original. The commentators give uttara here the meaning pradhana, 'best, prominent.' The same explanation is given by the scholiast on the Nandî (Weber, Sacred Literature of the Jains, p. 124). Perhaps the name refers to the tradition that Mahâvîra recited at the time of his death the thirty-six aputtha-vâgaranâim, which are identified by one commentator of the Kalpa Sutra (Lives of the Ginas, § 147) with the Uttarâdhyayana; for uttara also means 'last.'
2 Bhavasiddhiya-bhavasiddhika, explained by bhavya.
