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www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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6. The letter p, though cut off mid-way, seems certain ;
as regards that which precedes, it might be the remainder of a p. This reading kapa, at the end of the second pâda, would make us think of verse 16 of the Suttanipāta, of which the second pâda finishes with netukappā; it is true that the first på da does not contain the formula yo neccasarī, etc. This is still one of the reasons that leave some doubt in me about the precisiou of agreement which I have attempted to show between the beginnings and the ends of lines. It is in some measure aggravated by the circumstance that the beginning of our line 50 appears to agree with the first pada of verse 16 of the Suttanipāta, so that if the trvo adjustments were justified, it is to the commence. ment of line 50 that it would be suitable to join the present line-end. I have pointed out the difficulties with which a similar adjustment would be confronted; it would render impossible the combinations proposed for the preceding lines, several of which appear surer and more convincing than this one. Besides the uncertainty lurking in the reading kapa and the possibility, quite open, of variations between our text and the Pali version, it will be seen that the identification of our 1.50 with the Pali beginning of stanza 16 is far from clear.
49 yasa anosea na [' sati keyi o]“...
...[? urako jina]-[tvaya purana]
On the margin : 40.
Foot-notes: 1 Fr. B XI.
Fr. Bu, 3 Fr. R VIT.]
Cf. Suttanip., 14.
4. Anosea, for nusen, affords again a particular
spelling, en =nya. We see by the initial o, which is certain, that our redaction was deviating from the Pali.
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