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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Notes
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पज्जति ( पर्याप्ति ) is fulness of faculties such as good power of digestion (आहारपज्जति) etc.
खण्डियविहूणो, (sk खण्डि कविहीनः), there were no pupils with सामिल. खण्डिय is not to be understood as खण्डित and विहूण as विधेय. It is possibly खंडिकविहीन खंडिक isa sanskrit word meaning a pupil. जत्ता ते भन्ने, जवणिज्जं ? सरिसवया, मासा, कुलत्था, एगे भवं . this typical series of questions is also employed in the dia. logue between थावच्चापुत्त and शूक्सन्यासी in the story of सेलग (ज्ञातधर्मकथाङगसूत्र) सोमिल belonging to another religious creed wanted to defy are by asking double-meaning questions. Here in our text the reading is rathet misleading as one is likely to take pagar and på in the same case But it is not so. सरिसवया ते भन्ते किं भक्खेया अभक्खेया ? एवं मासावि कुलत्था वि माणियव्वा and the fourth question is एगे भव अणेगे भवं etc ? So in our text we have to put comma after सरिसवया, मासा, कुलत्था thus embodying in one sentence sour que-tions, alfha does not want to say that पार्श्व is सरिसवय, or मास, or कुलत्थ. What he wants is to prove are a liar by employing double-meaning words. Thus when he asks पार्श्व as to whether सरिसवय is भक्ष्य or भभक्ष्य, he expects only one answer from पाश्व such as सरिखवय is भक्ष्य or सरिसवय is अभक्ष्य. So he wished to controvert पार्श्व when the latter would say सरिसवय is भक्ष्य by retorting that सरिसवय (सद्दशवयः=a friend) is never at (eatable) because it meant a
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