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Therefore the date of composition of SA. is younger than that of the PS. Thus Kundakundacārya happens to have lived a few centuries before the composition of the Satkhandāgama.
[As we have observed on Dr. Chandra's learned paper he contributed to the Jambūjyoti where, too, these two works were involved in comparison, his analysis and, as its result, the date-determinations made can be valid only after removing the earlier verses incorporated in the Pravacanasāra. -Editors]
Annotations :
1. SA = Satkhandāgama, Ed. H.L. Jain, Amravati 1939. 2. PS = Pravacanasāra Ed. A. N. Upadhye, Agas 1964. 3. See Siddha-Haima-śabdanušāsana, 8.4. 260, 261, 263, 269, 270, 274, 275, 277, 282 and 285. 4. The editor has made use of four works (as Mss A, P, C And K) containing the text and
commentary in Sanskrit. These Mss are of the 19th and 20th century A. D. and they wese copied from Mss of 15th 18th century A. D. While editing the PS he has not given preference
to any work (Ms.) for adopting a particular texual reading. 5. "I am inclined to believe, after this long survey of the available material, that Kundakunda's
age lies at the beginning of the Christian era". Introduction, p. 21, Pravacanasāra. 6. PS “Intro.," pp. 106-120. 7. SA Vol. I, Book 1, Preface, pp. 78-87.
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