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अनुसन्धान - ५४ श्री हेमचन्द्राचार्यविशेषांक भाग - २
94 in ed. with commm; also quoted in commen
in JAS ed.
taries on JP p. 485 and SP p. 180).
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Śanticandra (on JP) and Malayagiri (on JK) comment this statement in almost identical words:
aditya-karma-candra-nakṣatrābhivaṛdhita-māsānāṁ madhye karma-samvatsara-sambandhi 'niramsataya' paripūrṇa-trimsad-ahoratm-pramāṇatayā loke sukhena vyavaharako bhavati (M p. 55) / lokavyavahāra-kārakah syat (Ś).
māso
Śanticandra says that a fractional number (samsa-) does not suit practical activities. An integer number is thus: 60 = 1 muhurta, 30 m. = 1 day and 1 month
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1 fortnight, 2 fortnights
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palas 1 ghatikā, 2 gh. night, 15 days and nights and 12 months 1 year. This is what is used by people in ordinary life. Experts in treatises, he observes, use all thetypes of months for their respective activities.30
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The two commentators illustrate their point with one example each. Malayagiri refers to "uneducated people like peasants":
tatha hi haladharadayo pi bālisās trimsatam ahoratrān parigaṇayya māsam parikalpayanti (comm. on JK p. 55).
Śanticandra notes that in common parlance people employ the practical year and the practical month when they speak of the increase in the age of their children or for time intervals:
rtumasa-ṛtusamvatsarav eva lokaiḥ putravṛddhi
29. This is the reading of JK with Malayagiri's commentary and of the commentaries on JP and SP, against the Jaina-Agama-Series ed.: evam
sesā māsā.
30. Sastra-vedibhis tu sarve 'pi masāḥ sva-sva-karyeṣu niyojitāḥ (p. 485)
