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6. The sixth Anga is Nāyā Dhamma Kahao, i.e. examples and religious narratives. It has many interesting stories peculiar to Jainism originally or recast into that fashion.
7. The seventh Anga is Uvasagadasao describing the life and duties of ten lay adherents. Their life gives a picture of the social status enjoyed by the lay devotees of Mahāvir.
8. & 9. The eighth Anga is Antagada-dasao and the ninth Anuttarova yaiya-dasao. Both of them are biographies of saints and nuns attaining salvation or the highest place in heavenly abode, through severe penances. The former is generally preached during the eight days of the Annual Festival known as Paryusaņa. It gives an example how princes and queens gave up all attachments with their bodies and emaciated themselves through severe penances. The legend of Kļşhņa, recast according to the Jain tradition, is important for a comparative study of the cult.
10. The tenth Anga is Panha Vagaranam. It is a didactic treatment of the five ways of sin and five of virtue, known as the ten gates. Its contents correspond neither with the list given in the Nandi nor that in the Thānanga. It appears that a later work has got the place of the old Anga which is extinct.
11. The eleventh Anga is Vivagasuyam, i.e., the text of the ripening (of actions). It contains legends on the retribution of good and evil deeds after the manner of the Buddhist Karman stories in the Avadāna śataka and Karma śataka.
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