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No. II. I Do Ancient Jain Books Shed any Light:
From this, the word 'Nara' or 'Nara' would mean a son of water or an island 'man or a sailor. Even now in Satara district there are several families which have got Narake (FTF) as their surname.
All these references and arguments go to show that the Naraka teings described in the third Chapter of the Tatwartha Sutra are no others than the people who dwelt in lands which spread far and wide at one time in the Arabian sea and which were known as Sea lands or Narakas. We can further inter that the original form of the Sutras from which the 6 Sanskrit Sutras No. s 1 to 6 of the third Chapter of the Tatwartha Sutra were formed must be as old as four thousand and four hundred years.
