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Mahavira's Words by Walther Schubring - Appendix 1
to make it certain, that the Uvahāṇa-suya as we have it today is no less the work of our "redactor" than that of the previous chapters, for we have found in the latter almost all the features which characterize his work in the former.
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I do not think that I have to especially excuse the great detail with which I have dwelt on particulars in the course of the investigation. It has been a first attempt to look at a canonical Jaina work genetically. One would be able to proceed more summarily with other canonical texts. The same method used for them will likewise not rarely "reveal a swirling chaos of atoms", to use Franke's expression, whose observations for the Sutta-Nipata (Franke 1909, pp. Iff.), and often in a welcome way, confirm mine which were long established for me. Just as there for the history of the Tipitika, so also here building bricks for the Jaina canon will be gained.
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