Saint like that and a saviour in Prakrit Pali Sanskrit and Tibetan Literature

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A SAINT LIKE THAT' AND 'A SAVIOUR' : 51
w thereto
had becoin both the
"protector” embracing both the Jain lexicographer and Buddh.-Sanskrit-Tibetan lexicography21.
We may, therefore, conclude that the original correspondence tayi(n) = tādi(n) = tād? (n) had become obsolete at a later time and was replaced by the equation tāyi = träyi in both the Jaina and the Bauddha communities.
Let us now make an attempt to determine the position of tayin in Jaina Literature, We already noticed that träył (tayi) is mentioned as the fifteenth epithet of the Tathāgata in the Buddh. Mahăvyutpattilexicon. In Hemacandrācārya's Abhidhānacintămani on the other side we do not find tāyi given as an epithet of a Jina. Epithets of a Jina like Arhan, Paragatas, Trikalavit, etc. are mentioned HC. I. verse 24, 25 (0.c. p. 9), but no tāyī is found among them. This situation is in full accordance with what we find in the list of epithets to Bhagavān Mahāvīra in the Ardhamāgadhi śvetām bara-Jaina Canon, where in the long list of Mahavira's epithets no tāyin can be traced. Regarding this list I may refer to the beginning of the fourth anga, called Samavāe22, of the fifth, called Viyahapannati23, and of the sixth called Nāyadhammakahāo24, where no tāyin is traceable among the epithets of Mahāvīra. In the Uvanga also, whenever a complete list of Mahavira's epithets is given25, tāyin is not mentioned among them. Hemacandrācārya's silence about tāyin as an epithet to Bhagavān Mahāvīra may indicate that he followed here the traditional line which did not have tāyin as a specific epithet of the Jina26..
What the occurrence of tãi in the Śvet. Jaina Canon is concerned one can only observe that this term exists more for itself in its own
21 Cf. Mahāvyutpatti 15. 22 For references vide Suttagame padhamo amso, Pupphabhikkhunā
sampādio, Gurgão-Chāvani (Purvapamjāb) 1953, p. 316. 23 Suttāgame p. 384, Viyā hapannatti here under the name of
Bhagavai. 24 Suttāgame I p. 942, line 2, cf. P. Steinthal, Specimen der
Näyâdhammakaha, Dissertation, Leipzig 1881, p. 9, 8 8. 25 E. Leumann, Das Aupapātika-Sūtra, Dissertation, Leipzig 1882,
$ 16, p. 28 and 9 20, p. 33. The same text in Suttāgame Vol. II p. 3.22, p. 5.29 under the title of Ovaväiyasuttam. Cf. Suttāgame
II p. 41.26 under Rāyapaseņaiyam. 26 However, the list of epithets given in Abhidhānacintamani I. 24, 25
does not agree with that of the above mentioned canonical references.