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Compilation of the Agamas in the Tirthankar, was in fact compiled a long time Later Ages
after Tirthankar Mahavir's nirvana. It was As far as truth is concerned I have never either written or compiled by Acharya been bound any particular philosophy. I Devavachak. In the lengthy period between have always supported liberal and the time of Tirthankar Mahavir and that of independent thinking. So I do not hesitate Acharya Devavachak, there were many to comment on the Jain texts from the same major upheavals in the country. There was a critical point of view that I would adopt saga of famine, political revolution, and towards Vedic literature.
rapid change, growth and reaffirmation in
all the religious traditions. Yet we accept Being a student of history, I accept the fact these sutras, compiled 1,000 years after the that every religious tradition undergoes nirvana of Mahavir, and all the facts changes from time to time, and in the mentioned in them, as the voice of a process some false ideas creep in among the Tirthankar. Though much of these later true ones. However when the right time Agamas touch upon the enhancement of comes along, these thoughts are refined as life, I am certain they are not directly well. At present, I have before me a long list connected with the actual revelations of of different opinions regarding the beliefs Tirthankar Mahavir. Everyone admits today and structure of the Jain canons. Some of that much of the original teaching has been the history is now available for us to look at lost because of gaps in the system of oral when, where and how these beliefs were transmission, or the fact that memory is changed, how many of the new ideas were weak. Why then can people not admit that accepted, and how many of the old ones some contemporary beliefs must have been were rejected
added to the texts at certain points in the
compilations. The Nandi Sutra, which we include as an Agama and hold to be a revelation of the Today we ought to think about this subject
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