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across so many misreadings established in the text proper that a commentator must explain them any way.
In the text of अंत. and अणु०, अभयदेव himself discusses the readings in the commentaries, and himself points to the difficulties involved in the interpretation; e. g. sino comm. P. 49. where after citing two opinious he says: तवं तु बहुश्रुत
Fil; also wia. comm. P. 101. the discussion of कम्माययणेहिं and another reading कम्मावयणेहिं etc. In quo too, there are many expressiocs, which can be called obscure and even misread, in the portion in which the penance-worn limbs of Dha. nua are compared with various fruits and other objects. Terce himself is not sure of the meanings, he gives; e.g. see, fort, TantiENT etc. (See, comm. P. 109). In other Sūtras one comes across such cases very often.
Thus the settling of the texts of the scriptures of Jain canon is not an easy task. The systematic edition of the Jain canon will only be possible, if a band of scholars undertake to edit it by utilizing and sifting all available data his. torical, lexical, grammatical and doctrinal. “Some day” says Prof. Barnetta “When the whole of
2. Barnett. Ant & Anu. Trans P. ix
