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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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yasa rativivasina apodake"
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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ayu aparato sia
4. The gap, which extends too much, again renders the understanding of the remnants impossible here. I transcribe: : yasya rātririvāseno āyur aparataṁ syāt alpodlake. But I know no instance of the use of aparata, and aparanta would not, as far as I can see, give any sense. The bottom of the initial letter is perhaps not completely intact; it is perhaps which the manuscript originally had. Even with uparata we hardly see what the subject can be: "whose life stops with the dawn."
7 ye hu dhayeyu" dahara ye ca majhima poruşa anupa ? sa nica maranato bhayo O
a. The final y is joined to the following in a cursive connection forming a ring, which marks perhaps an intention to denote ; any how it is necessary. Dhayeyu is the potential of dhayata, "to suck."
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death."
b. Cf. Suttanip., 576: evaṁ jūtānaṁ maccānaṁ niccam muranatu bhayam. I do not hope to fill up the gap, which does not this time hinder the understanding of the uniform sense. "Suckling infants or mature (on all) always (hangs) the dread of
8 ?dha phalana pakana nica patana.........
ya ayu payeti panina" ()
Cf. Suttanip., 576, and Dhammap.. 195.
7. Our verse seems to be made up by patching together, though quite incoherently, a half of each of these stanzas. The final u of aya, however necessary it may be, is still more doubtful than that of dhayeyn in the preceding line; somewhat of the same method appears briefly indicated.
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