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1. The Child Miyáputta.'
1. At that time and at that period there was a city named Miyaggáma. (Its description 2). Out. side this city of Miyaggáma and to its northeastern dircetion, there was a garden named Candapapáyava (its description), where stood a templo dedicated to the Jakkha Suhamma. (Its description).
2. In this city of Miyaggáma dwelt: King Vijaya, the Khattiya. That Vijaya, the Khattiya, had a queen called Miya. That Vijaya, the Khattiya, had by his queen Miyát a son named Miyaputta, the child who was froin birth blind, dumb, deaf, lame, deformed and gouty.
(1) Skt. Mrgáputra, popularly known as Mirgáloqhá or "lohiya from his body being a mere ball of flesh.
(2) One of the most curious features of the Jaina Scriptures is the mechanical character of their verbal structure. A vast pumber of phrases, sentences, and whole perioda recur again and again with mathematical regularity; but instead of being writton out in full, they are usually abbreviated, the first and the last words only being given, with the word uity" until ” to denote the intermediate words ; and often this stenographic symbol is left out, the word gruot "description" being substituted for the whole. Full description of a city, sanctuary, garden, king, queen, Lord Mahávíra etc. occurs in the Ovayáiya, the second Upanga from which they are reproduced everywhere else when required.
(3) The Historical Present has been throughout used in the narration which I huvo rendered in the Past Tense.
(4) Polygamy being common in those days, especially among kings, the queon's name has been mentioned to specify the child's mother.
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