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any arguments whatsoever, not to speak of a hostile or a malicious one. These passages must have interloped into the Tripitakas at later dates. We find the same phenomenon in the latter day literature of the Jainas.
One is struck by an almost complete absence of any mention of the Buddha in the Agamas. This interestingly, can be a pointer to the fact that the Āgamas have suffered less from interpolation than other ancient scriptures.
This brings us to the end of the book proper. Some appendices are there extremely useful indeed, such as, the glossaries of technical terms, both Jaina and Buddhist.
It would have been quite interesting to find what these two systems had to say about the then existing Vedic systems like Sankhyas or Vedantins.
Also a contemporary map showing the field of activity of both the Masters would have been very welcome. This could be spread on inner covers of the subsequent volumes.
It is a pity that the Buddhist public and scholars all over the world will hardly have any access to the contents of the book due to its language. Could it be translated into English ?
-H. SRIMAL
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