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given in their full. In such cases Muni Punyavijaya adopts the procedure of bracketing these passages with the signs :-1-1. I have followed Muni Punyavijaya, except that I have enclosed these passages within square brackets.
The manuscript does not have uniform spellings. Thus we find the same words in different forms: hottha, hutthā; gutta, gotta; bhavai, bhavati; viikkanta, vitikanta, etc. The syllable 'a' is often substituted for ‘ya'. I have retained variant spellings in most cases, resisting the temptation to institute uniformity.
Sūtras in our manuscript have no indication noting their numerical order, right upto the Sadhu Samācārl section. I have restored the number-marks on the basis of Muni Punyavijaya's edition.
This edition reljes essentially on a single manuscript, thus variant readings have not been noted. For these, the reader is referred to Muni Punyavijaya's edition.
Houtat
Litutos
Ramnavami 29th March, 1977.
M. Vinaya Sagar
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