Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
INTRODUCTION
Em. Os1.* Idoration to the propitious Pársvanátha.
Having prostrated myself before the glorious Mahávíra, and brought before the mind Gautama, the Religious Instructor, I proceed to expound the Kalpa Sútra in the comment called the Kalpalata.
Religion is the vital principlet of the world,
* Ex means the female energy or cause of the world, and On the male, answering to our matcrial and efficient causes. This line is merely prefixed by the scribe, and docs not belong to the work.
+ I lave rendered TT by these two phrases, as the best I eonld think of.
The whole sentence which holds here so important a place is as follows:
धर्मी जगतम्मारः। मर्वमखानां प्रधानहेतुत्वात्। तस्योत्पत्तिर्मनुजाः । मारं तेनैव मानुय्ये॥