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have extended only upto the three pupils of Vajra. If we remember all this, the 'disparity of subjects treated in the Kalpasūtra' can be naturally and easily explained.
In the early days, the Kalpasūtra was read completely in a single night. But later, it came to be divided into nine or more parte, and the reading was distributed over nine or even cleven or thirteen instalmenta; cf. Kalpalata, p. 160b, 241b &c. As the Kalpalata of Samayasundara was composed mainly for explaining the ceremonial connected with the reading of the Kalpagutra (of. Kalpalati, v. 8 of the Introduction), it divided the text into nine Vacadās, or conveniently readable parte. There is however no complete agreement between the different Jain Acāryas as regards these divisions.
After reading the Sthavirivali, it seems to have been the general practioe to read the Kalikaaryakatha, for the purpose of commemorating the great event in the history of the Jain Church, namely, the transference of the Paryusana Parvan from the 5th to the 4th day of the first half of the month of Bhadrapada. Kalpalata recommends its reading in the following words:- *
Le RFT Á STAR WARST
-p. 241b. There was no fixed text for the story, and the reader could choose any one from the large number of Sanskrit and Prakrit versions of it. Profeskor Brown of the Pennsylvania University in America has considered 17 different versions of the story
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