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standard phraseology prescribed for the stay and movement of Jaina friars and nuns in the canonical literature.
ili. Vata-pitta-śleşma-svāsa-khāsa-jarā-aruci-cardi etc., the names
of seven hundred diseases.
Such other descriptive and enumerative repetitions often found in different stories of AKT, is the influence of Ardhamāgdhi prose style; this confirms that the author is well-acquainted with Ardhamāgadhi canonical texts.
Though the present edited texts of AKT have given prominence to the manuscripts with the opening Sanskrit śloka of 'namaḥ śri vardhamānāya', as they belong to the recension of a particular group of preserving the text intact, equal weightage should be given to the other manuscripts which open with three Prakrit gāthās of one each of the invocatory gathas from Prakrit-Nirvana-bhakti, Pravacana-sära and Pancāsti-kāya of the adept Konda-kunda-ācārya; actually commencing the AKT with the Prakrit-gāthās is in tone with the disposition of the author and the text. The Sanskrit śloka has been interpolated and substituted by the later copyists.
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