Agam 01 Ang 01 Acharanga Sutra

Author(s): K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Prakrit Jain Vidya Vikas Fund Ahmedabad

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आचाराङ्ग
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2. 31. FREE of the same class is preferred to the anuswära.
Nominal case suffixes, mas. nom. sg. -e, neu. nom. accu. plu. -ni, inst. sg. -ena and -tå, abl. sg. -to, inst. plu: -hi, loc. plu. -su, etc, are preferred to -0, -im, enam and -ă, -o, and -his, -sum respectively, i.e. whatever is linguistically older that is preferred to younger one."
Verses are preserved according to the edition of the Ācārāngasūtra by Walther Schubring.
Whichever reading of the MIV. edition of the Ācārārga is replaced in this text is given in the foot
note.
To sum up it has been tried as far as possible to restore that reading of the text which is linguistically an archaic form and is properly supported by its occurence in the manuscripts of the text itself or other older published Amg. Agamic texts.
However, it is to be sincerely admitted that this edition is also not the last and final one. It is possible that new material might come into light and in that case revision of the text-constitution would be the desideratum.
K. R. Chandra
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See the concerned topics in the text No. 3 quoted supra in the foot-note on the page No. 1. Leipzig, 1910, In Kommission bei F.A. Brockhaus.
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