________________
Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[496.
pretation, Mahavira's grhavasa, his twelve years' life as an ascetic and his activities for about 30 years after he became omniscient. The description of the biography of Mahāvīra given here reminds one of the Lalitavistară, a Buddhistic work.
In Sthaviravali, we find a list of ganas (schools), .their Sakhas (branches) and the ganadharas (heads of schools). The names given in this list are borne out by the inscriptions from the Ist century A. D.
Sāmăcări, a code of rules for asceticism deals with rules and regulations pertaining to pajjusaņa. This section is looked upon by Western scholars as the oldest nucleus, and they opine that Bhadrabāhu does not seem to be the author of all the three sections which have been united to
form a whole in Che Kalpasūtra. Begins.- (text) fol. 1 ए ६० ॥ अहं । ।
.. नमो अरिहंताणं नमो सिद्धाणं नमो आयरियाणं नमो उवज्झायाणं _ नमो लोए सव्वसाहूणं ... . .
एसो पंचनमुक्कारो सन्चपावप्पणासणो
मंगलाण च सव्वेसिं पढम हवइ मंगलं १ तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं समणे भगवं महावीरे पंचहत्थुत्तरे होत्था तं जहा हत्थुत्तराहिं etc. , -expla') fol. 1॥ ६०॥ अरिहंतनइ माहरी त्र(त्रि)कालवंदना ॥ सिद्धनइ
माहरी बंदना etc. ए पंच परमेष्टिष्टि)॥ नमस्कार सर्व पापर्नु नसाडणहार etc. fol. 44* अयं असी(इ)मे संवच्छरे काले गच्छइ वायणतरे पुण अयं तेणउयए
संवच्छरे काले गच्छइ ।। इति दीसइ ५१ छ श्री इति महावीरचरित्र(त्र) ___समाप्तं श्री॥ fol. 55 एयमि समए समणे भगवं महावीरे परिनिवु(बु)ए तउ(ओ)वि परं नव
. वाससया विइं(इ)कंता दसमस्स य वाससयस्स अयं असी(इ)मे संवच्छरे ..काले गच्छइ २५ ... . Ends.-.fol. 63... ... .. . . . . .वंदामि अज्जधम्मं च सुवय(सव्वयं) सीललद्धिसंपन्न
जस्स य निक्खमणे देवो छत्तं वरमुत्तमं वहइ ७ हत्थं 'कासव पत्त. This Ms. ends thus abruptly.
