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THE ANGAS or explained. No other texts furnished a picture of Mahāvira's character and activities as distinct as that of the Viy. in spite of the style being mostly conventional.
To analyse the whole Viy. would go beyond the frame of this book. Its motley character will become sufficiently clear in a specimen, for which we have chosen saya 2.
Udd. l.-1 (109 a). Breathing. 2 (110 b). A madāı niyantha (§ 154). 3(112 a.). The scene: Chittapalāsaya near Kayangalā. The Brahman monk Khandaga Kaccāyana, a disciple of Saddabhāli, is instructed by Mahāvīra. On his part, Kh had no reply to the questions of the layman Pingalaga of Vesāli The subjects are: the resp. finiteness and infiniteness of the world, the soul, siddhi and siddha; unwisely and wisely dying, Khi's conversion, spiritual career, fasting to death and post-existences -Udd. 2. (129a.). The 7 samugghāya ($ 89 ): reference to Pannav. 36.-Udd 3 (130 a). The 7 regions ref. to Jiv. 3, 1.2.-Udd 4 (131 a). The 5 senses. ref. to Pannav. 15.Udd 5.1 (131b). Against annautthiya gods and goddesses in their mutual relations; the soul has one gender exclusively. 2(133a). Embryology. 3. (133b). The embryo is product (putta) as well as cause. 4. (133b). Sexual intercourse is lack of self discipline (samjama) 5(134b). The scene. Pupphavaī near Tungiyā. Some Pārśva teachers (names) are teaching some laymen about the reward for self-discipline, ascetics, karma and worldliness (sangiyā). Mahāvīra approves of them in every respect. 6 (140b). The reward for having served a true (tahā-rūva) samana or māhana by degrees will lead to siddhi. 7 (142a) Against annautthiya. an explanation as to how a hot spring comes into existence.—Udd 6 (142a). The speech. ref to Pannav 11 -Udd 7 (142b). The regions of the gods: ref. to Pannay. 2 and Jiv.3, 4. 2.--Udd 8 (144a). The sabhā of the god Camara.--Udd. 9 (146a). Samayakhetta.—Udd 10 I (147b). The Fundamental Facts.
Comm : Vrttı by Abhayadeva --Ed (along with the vștti): ĀS 5, Ben s. 1938.--Āg S. 1-3, Bo 1918-21.-Both text and yrtti transl. into Gujarātī by BECHARDĀS, saya 1-6, Ahm. ca. 1927. WEBER, see § 2.
$46. Anga 6-11. 6 Nāyādhammakahão This title is a