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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
2 The Last Five Upångas [ I. Lect. 1. prosperous well-protected and happy. In it there was a temple named Guñasilaa (its description is to be here supplied), an excellent As'oka tree and a big slab of stone lying on the ground.
2. At that time and at that period Ajjasuhamma, the disciple of the Ascetic, the blessed Mahlvira, who was a houseless monk and who was possessed of the knowledge of the previous birth (he is to be desmean the Upũngas with Nirayã vaiiyão as the basis i. e. the last five Upãngas.' Accordingly it is divided into five sections respectively called (1) Nirayă valiyão-The
series of persons who went to Hell, or Kappiyâ-the Basis, (2) Kappavadim siyã or the appondix to Kappiya, (3) Pupphiyã or another appendix to Kappiyã (4)
Pupphachulã-an apponpix to Pupphiyã (or the pupils of Pupphachūlās ) and (5) Vanhidasã or the ten ( dasa ) chapters on the Vrsnis ( though in reality the number of chapters is twelve ).
2. Kappiyã or tho Basis is a sub-title of the first Vagga or section of the prosent toxt so called because it forms the Kalpa,—the basis or the starting point in a series of texts.
3. The portions printed in tho italics are not in the original Prãkrit text, but have been added to facilitate the anderstanding. Tho portions enclosed within round brackets are rubrical directions to the rooiting monk regarding the passages to be supplied by him from memory, and citel from othor sacred books of the Jains.
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