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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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those following, a sort of stereotyped cadence. I do not see what sense the comparison might have at the end of the verse, where it seems to have been transported from the second pâda. Be that as it may, we may, on the likeness of Cro, 1, 2, admit that it should be completed as pus[u]viva u°.
Here we come to a series of stanzas, which find their Pâli counterparts in the first chapter, Uragasutta, of the Suttanipata. Unfortunately, the lines that are about to follow are still more fragmentary than these. Some fragments, several of which can be reconciled with certainty, enable us to fill up only a part of the gap; no line can be completed entirely. These restorations concern especially the end of verses, and this end is here uniform for all; what remains of the commencements is short and occasionally doubtful; lastly, although the threads along the margin may be preserved, the scraps which still adhere thereto in the principal leaf B, could not with certainty be re-instated in their proper places and with their respective intervals. In the circumstances, it will be understood that I have not been able to reunite in a decisive manner the beginnings and the ends of line.
It seems at least certain that the eight line-ends, as far as and including that which ends in the cipher on the margin, succeed one another without interruption. Above and below, the leaf is broken; some gaps are then, a priori, allowable; but, as to the lower gap, the visible tension of the thread on the left appears to exclude it. The cipher on the margin marks, besides, the end of a chapter; with the line that is prolonged, the last of our eight lines,ends then the series of stanzas of uniform frame.
If now we looked at the beginnings, it would not appear that, between the line yo upa° and the line yasa rana, there are missing more lines than one, viz., that of which the beginning yo eca sari is preserved by the Fragment B vi.
This being granted, the fragment B x1, which fits in surely above the end of line 42, preserves the remainder of a previous stanza of the same structure. A line, then, is certainly dropped after the one which we number 40. Is one only dropped?
To consider the beginnings of line, gaps scarcely seem to be noticeable. If we fill up with a line
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