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What the Yapaniya commentator Aparājita in his Vijayodajă-ţikā (c. early 9th cent. A. D.) on the. Ārādhana of Sivārya (c. 5th6th cent. A. D) cites as of Pundarikādhyayana is somewhat paralleled in this third stratum. (Cf. Muni Jambūvijaya, "Introduction," p. 32). The version of the canon that the Yapaniyas had must date before A. D. : 353 at which the Mathura Synod was convened and hence the one that existed before the date of the Boţika schism, but si me t'me in the first quarter of the 3rd cent. A. D. (I am discussing this problem of chronology elsewhere. Under the circumstances, the Yapaniya version of the “ Puņdarîka adhyayana " must belong to a date prior c. A. D. 200-225; hence the third stratum of the Pundarika-adhyayana was compiled at a date seemingly not later than c. A D. 200, or early Kuşāņa period. Yapaniya Aparajitasari, in his Vijayodaya-ţikā, refers to the Pundarika and the Mahāpundurika texts. Cf. the discussion by Pt. Dalsukh Malvania, “Prastāvana" (Hindi), Jaina Sähitya kā Bșhad Itihasa, pt. 1, Varanasi, 1966, p. 38.
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