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4. Enumerated for instance in Hemacandra, Abhidhānacint āmaņi (cf. fn.
24), v. 50-53ab (58--64); Pravacanasāroddhāra, gā. 288-290 (cf. 1.1.2). 5. J. Deleu, Viyahapannatti (Bhagavai). The Fifth Amga of the Jaina Canon
(....), Brugge, 1970, Intr., p. 18ff. "Nucleus and Accretions". 6. Deleu, ibid., p. 257. 7. S I. 804, 14-16 : Goyama, cauvvisam Titthagarā, tam jaha: Usabha-Ajiya (...)
Nemi-Pasa Vaddhamina 24; Deleu, ibid., xx, 8, 3a, p. 256. 8. Later on (11th cent. A. D.), Abhayadeva's commentary on this passage
naturally mentions the first of the 24 : 'agamessāņam ti agamisyatām,
bhavisyatāın Mahāpadmādinām Jinanām .... (ed. Surat, 1940). 9. Text according to W. Schubring, Acaranga-sūtra. Erster Srutaskandha.
Text, Analyse und Glossar. Leipzig, 1910 (Abh. für die Kunde des Morgenlandes xii, 4), p. 17, lines 16-18. I here take arahantā as a synonym of Tirthamkaras and do not enter into any discussion about the
two terms. 10. Jacobi's trsl, in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxii. Jaina Sūtras, Delhi,
1884, repr. 1968, p. 36. 11. Cp. similar expressions in Buddhist texts, below 3; H. Smith, ed. Saddaniti,
vol. iv, Lund 1949, 5.3.1. In the Jaina Canon, applied to the Jina : Süyagada I, 15, 1 (S I, p. 132) :
jam alam padupannam agamissam..ca nāyao
savvam mannai tam tāi damsaņāvaran'ntae. 12. Cp. the Ayaramga-nijjutti verse 226 (ed. Jambūvijaya Muni, Delhi, 1978), p. 120.
je Jiņavarā aiyā, je sampai, je aņāgae kale
savve vi te ahimsam vadimsu vadihinti vivadinti. “What is past, present and to come, all this is known to the Leader, the Saviour who annihilates the hindrances to right faith (JACOBI's trul. Sacred Books of the East, vol. xlv); cf. also Uvāsagadasão 7 (SI, 1149, 14-15 ff.): tiyapaduppannam anāgaya-Jāņae araha Jine; used to emphasize the eternal character of the custom of distributing wealth, observed by the Sakrag when the Arhats leave the world, Nayadhammikahão I, 8 (S I, 1032, 14-15) : tam jiyam eyam tiyapaccuppannam aņāgayānam Sakkāņam arahatāņam bhagavantānam nikkhamamāṇānam im' eyārūvam atthasampayāṇam dalaittae; Thăn 3 (S I, 216, 22; 25). 13. Cürņi (ed. Ratlam, 1942), p. 133, 1.9 ff.; Silanka's T (ed. Jambūvijaya,
ibid.), p. 119: atikrāntas Tirthakrtah kalasyānāditvād anantā atikrāntā
anagatā apy ananta āgāmi-kālasyānantatvāt. 14. They were born in the five Bharatas, the five Airāvatas and the five
Mahävidehas. Cf. cũrni; T ibid. records various opinions regarding the number of Ts : 10, 20, or 170, viz, 32 x 5+10. This is also recorded in
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