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JAIN LITERATURE.
the Swetambari sect who are still in possession the oldest of the Jain literature. This collec. tion consisted of fourteen Purvas and eleven Angas, and though the text, of these Purvas have been entirely lost but their names and conspectus have been handed down to us, as in the following :
1. Utpad. 2. A grdyani. 3. Viryaprabad. 4. Astinásti prabad. 5. Jnyan prabad. 6. Satya prabåd. 7. Atmr prabad. 8. Karma prabåd. 9. Pratyakhyân prabad. 10. Vuidydnu prabad. II. Abandhya. 12. Pranayu. 13. Kriya Visål. 14. Lokvindusår.
Gradually the Jain canons fell into disorder as they were not then systematically reduced to writing. In order to save them from becoming extinct altogether, another Council was held in Vallabhi (Guzrat) under the presidency of Devardhi-gani Kshamashraman, when it was decided to collect all the existing texts and to preserve the same in writing. This great personage, not only collected the vast sacred literature, then avail. able, but revised and arranged the whole of them, writing thein down from memory. This redaction took place about the year
691
