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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 अंतo and अणु०, अभयदेव him - self discusses the readings in the commentaries, and himself points to the difficulties involved in the interpretation; e. g. comm. P. 49. where after citing two opinions he says: तव तु बहुश्रुत; also . comm. P. 101. the discussion of कम्माययणेहिं and another reading कम्मावयणेहिं etc. In ago too, there are many expressions, 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. ana himself is not sure of the meanings, he gives; e.g. see. for, iar etc. (See. comm. P. 109). In other Sutras one comes across such cases very often.
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Thus the settling of the tures 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. Barnett2 "When the whole of 2. Barnett, Ant. & Anu. Trans P. ix
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