Book Title: Kummaputta Chariam
Author(s): K V Abhyankar
Publisher: K V Abhyankar

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________________ | St. 7) Notes well as the tenets of all the important rival schools. The epithet: 75agseft is found used in conection with great scholars and als is believed to be the last of those who knew the fourteen Pirvas. चउणाणोवगए-(Sk. चतुर्शानोqota: ) who was possessed of the four kinds of knowledges:-Afa direct knowledge through senses or mind, ya knowledge resulting from reading or hearing the Scriptures, svaret knowledge of tangible things in a limited sphere without the aid of the senses or mind, मनःपर्याय knowledge of the thoughts and ideas in the minds of other sentient beings in a limited sphere without the aid of the senses or mind. He was not possessed of only the fifth or last kind of knowledge viz. persara-the simultaneous knowledge of all past, present and future objects, which has got no limitation. सव्वक्खर० (Sk. सर्वाक्षरsfatarai) who had the knowledge of all combinations of letters i. e. of all words. The word can also be taken as 217To whose sound of letters, i.e. voice, was pleasant to the ears. jef It is mentioned in the Kalpa-Sutra that 500 monks took the Diksha of ascetic life from Attaraft at the time when Gautama took it. ggggor (Sk. agua) by repeated . fasts of two days each, 3ghty (in the foot

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