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Even Ācārya Haribhadra sūri has not taken such a liberty in the commentaries on his own works, the Yogadrstisamuccaya and the Pañcavastuka or for that matter in the commentary of the text the Sodaśaprakarana. Other great commentators also have not taken such a liberty. From this we may get an idea of the established convention as indicated above.
Quite contrary to this established tradition, after the completion of the commentary of the Pañcasūtra, Haribhadrācārya has put nearly six sentences : Granted that they are in Sanskrit, but they have been inserted in such a way that they can be ranked with the originalsūtras. If these sentences are compared with the sentences 741 FH H ul4 etc. in the final 15th prose section of the first free of the Pañcasūtra barring the difference of language-the Sūtra text being in Prakrit, the commentary in Sanskrit - there is no difference at all in the style and presentation of the two. Further, with reference to this, the sentences, सर्वनमस्कारार्हेभ्यो नम:15 and सर्वे सत्त्वाः सुखिनः
16 [repeated three times incorporated in the prose section of the commentary, positively appear to be the respective reflections of the sentences 741 H (here, had it been 7415#4, it would appear more consistent and more pleasing) नमोक्कारारिहाणं17, and सुहिणो भवंतु जीवा18 found in the prose section of the original text.
The aforementioned situation clearly, indeed positively, leads us to believe, indeed on firm grounds, that Haribhadra sūri is also the author of the Sūtra text and for that very reason, during the process of repeatedly experiencing the devotionally emotionalised moments, he might have incorporated this small prose section in the commentary. It does not sound superfluous when he says that. He would not have taken such a liberty had he been just the commentator and not the author of the original text.
3. The great epistemologist Yaśovijaya Gani of the 17th century, on whom was bestowed upon the title wa TT, at the time of referring to the Pañcasūtra in the 1971, includes the following phrases :
पापप्रतिघातगुणबीजाधानसूत्रे हरिभद्रसूरिभिरप्येतद्भव-सम्बन्धि भवान्तरसम्बन्धि वा पापं यत्तत्पदाभ्यां परामृश्य मिथ्यादुष्कृतप्रायश्चित्तेन विशोधनीयमित्युक्तम् । तथा हि "सरणमुवगओ अ एएसिं......इत्थ forgifuges 3"1119
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