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Ananda, had practised above said eleven Pratimas. The Vratas are practised. indenpedently, and at the time of fulfilment of Pratimas also. These Vratãs and Pratimas are the two religious codes for an Upäsaka. In the Samawayanga and the Nandi Sutra, Vrata and Pratima both are mentioned. The Jayadhawala gives an account of Pratimas only.
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ANTAGADADASÃO
The title
The present Agama is the eighth of the Dwadasangi. The illustrious ones who put an end to the cycle of death and birth, have been narrated in it, and it has ten Adhyayanas. Hence the title 'Antagadadasão'. The Samwayanga tells us that it contained ten Adhyayanas and seven Vargas'. The Nandi Sūtra says nothing about its Adhyayanas and only eight Vargas have been accounted for and in it. Sri Abhayadeva Sari has tried to find consistency in these both. He tells us that the first Varga has ten Adhyayanas, therefore the Samawayanga Sutra mentions ten Adhyayanas and seven Vargas only. The Nandi Sūtra gives cight Vargas only with no mention of Adhyayanas". But this consistency cannot be maintained to the end, because the Samawayanga gives us ten Siksha-kālas (Uddeśan kalas) of this Agama and the Nandi Sütra gives only eight. Sri Abhayadeva Suri admits that he does not understand the purpose behind the difference in the number of the Uddeśankälas. The Churgikar of the Nandisutra, Sri Jinadas Mahattar and the Vrittikar, Sri Haribhadra Süri also write that the present Agama is given the title 'Antagadadasão' as it has ten Adhyayanas in the first Varga". The Chürnikar takes the meaning of 'Dasa' as 'Awastha' (condition) also.
Three traditions are found to narrate the present Agama: firstly, that of the samawāyānga; secondly, that of the Tatwärtha Vartika, and thirdly, that of the Nandi Sūtra.
1. Samawao, painnagasamawao, Sutra 96,
2. Nandi Sutra, 88.
3. Samwayanga Vritti, page 112.
4. Samawayanga Vritti, page 112.
5. (a) Nandi with Churni, page 68.
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(b) Nandi with Vritti, page 83.
6. Nandi with the Churnipage 68. Dasatti Awastha.
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