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

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________________ St. 177-192 ] Notes 47 difinitely the number of paganfa's eliminated by the 7994 to be 63 (5 J ETCOTO 9 Piaggio, 28 herfro, 3 pro, 13 TO, 5 Staceto,) while in our text the 3 snyagfas are omitted and there are added 16 Tagfas (EHITTA enfa in Stanza 179 and 15 T efas of Stanza 181), the total number of fagnafas stated as annihilated in our text amounting to 76. The Harorat is a living human being with a specific bodily stature and bodily virtues, and hence, so long as he lives in his present body it is natural that there are found in him uneliminated the charafao which are bound to be there due to his existence, whose number comes to 72. These thighfa's being absolutely harmless, there is no future esistence for him. The omission of the 3 stry: gentas in our text appears however to be rather unwarranted as it is necessary for the 874 to have destroyed the causes of his living the life of da, farosa or area. St. 185 a bigat spre it appears that a केवलज्ञानी is not to bow down to another केवलTaft as both of them occupy the same status. St. 192 As this stanza is not found in many mss. and as the comparisons are not very happy it is likely to be spurious. The difficulty of practice appears to be the

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