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Mss. spell this expression most wrongly as अरियासमिट, रियासमिए etc (See. Text of अणु० P.. 72. foot. note.14); of अब्भत्थिय and अज्झत्थिय, it. is most difficult to settle which is correct though अभयदेव's leaning seems to be towards अज्झत्थिय [ = आध्यात्मिक: a rare use as meaning 'inner' ] (See. ana's Com. P. 90; also see Notes P. 103); and (See. Notes P. 101. See. Text of a P. 67. foot-note. 3.) aferu, inferu, gfe-it is difficult to decide the original root in this case (See. Notes. P. 107); Taneja or menfzer (See. Notes P. 99) etc. These instances show what damage is done to the scriptures by time, neglect and the inaccuracies of scribes.
I have not touched upon the question of coming between two vowels (like fa̸) in the Mss. All the Mss. bear this trend. The vowels and often are found carelessly written as and. The oft-repeated long passages sometime lead a scribe to forget a link and fall into a mistake or mistakes.
ara is not helpful at all times to settle the texts in crucial cases, though of course his commentaries are useful as they can give a clue to us of the condition of scriptural text in the 12th Cent, and thereabout. In the colophons of ma
