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their Head, Prabhava. He questioned Prabhava about Religious Truth and Prabhava instructed him. Asha became a monk and came to possess the knowledge of the Fourteen Pūrvas. The relatives of Biha felt very much when the latter became a monk especially because he had no issue. They asked his wife whether she felt anything in the womb. She replied that she slightly ( HUTİ) felt the presence of a foetus. She was pregnant at the time and duly gave birth to a son who was named Amp on account of the remark 39 Teh HMI (slightly I feel ) made by his mother. When the boy became eight years old, he made queries of his mother about his father. On learning that his father had become a monk, the boy left his house to see his father whomi he net in the city of Champā. The boy also became a monk. The father-monk by his spiritual vision came to know that the boy had only a life of six months in store, and hence, he extracted religious precepts from the Pūrva books hurriedly, irrespective of the instructions regarding the proper time of study obtaining in the case 'of monks. As a consequence, the composition of hiha came to be known as actrics. As the number of chapters--excluding the two appendix chapters-is ten, the name given to the Sūtra is “ Dasaveāliya-sutta" (Sk. chaapT55-27). The Niryukti calls the book by the name g lisse also. The book has 10 chapters-designated by the word 31 pto (Sk. 3782277). The Niryukti cites the following regarding the extraction of the matter of the book from the Pūrva books:आयप्पवायपुव्वा निव्वूढा होइ धम्मपण्णत्ती । कम्मप्पवायपुव्वा पिंडस्स उ एसणा तिविहा ॥ सच्चप्पवायपुव्वा निव्वूढा होइ बक्कसुद्धी उ । अवसेसा निव्वूढा नवमस्स उ तइयवत्थूओ ॥ बिइओ विय आएसो गणिपिडगाओ दुवालसंगाओ । एवं किर निब्बूढं HUTTET STYRIESIS II Page 16-18.
St. 1. The term 'dharma' is here defined and explained to be a collection of three things-abstinence from injury, self-restraint and austerities. The term BEAT ( abstinence
