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indirect or abstruse mode of expression and adding unnecessary adjectives, descriptions or eulogies. If the reader would read ch. XXXVIII, of jñānā. for himself he would be convinced of the truth of our aforesaid remarks. We would not therefore exhaust our reader's patience by taking him through the said chapters verse by verse As we have minutely compared all the verses in the said chapters, we feel certain that the reader also would on an independent examination of the said chapters come to the same conclusion. The reader would find also in some of the verses not noticed here clear evidence of Jñānā. having borrowed and paraphrased verses from Yoga.
We shall now consider what other scholars have said on the question of the respective dates of the authors of the said two works. Pt. Nathuram Premi has, while discussing in his work 'Jain Sahitya Aura Itihāsa', the date of Subhacandrācārya and his work Jñánārnava, stated that he first discussed it in 1907 A. D. in his Introduction to Jnānārņava believing Bhattāraka Visvabhūṣaṇa's Bhaktāmracaritra to be authoritative; but that in the special issue of 'DigambaraJaina' (Srāvana 1973 S.Y. i. e. 1917 A. D.) in the article entitled 'Subhacandrācārya', he controverted his own arguments in the said Introduction as the historicity of the greater portion of the narrative literature written by later Bhattārakas appeared doubtful to him. The said Bhaktāmaracaritra has absurdly described Bhoja, Kālidāsa, Vararuchi, Dhananjaya, Mānatunga, Bhartshari, Māgha and several others to be contemporaries, although every historian knows that they were not so. It also describes Subhacandrācārya to be a brother of the famous Bhartshari as also of King Bhoja. How can anyone be a brother to persons who lived centuries apart? Pt. N thuram Premi rightly complains that the publishers of Jnānārņava, though duly informed of his having revised his opinion expressed in the said Introduction and his having controverted the same in the said article entitled 'Subhacandrācāryal published in 'Digambara-Jaina', have. published two further editions of Jñānārņava with the same old Intro
