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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Pāli and Sk. th. But there are instances where dh represents ( also. Cf. cicegauilh, (1.13, 13) for Pali risesto; asighadhio (I. B, 337) for sangaligo; kusidhen (I. (ro, 17) for kusilo; curarthi (I, "", 31) for cūmulo; samantha (I. cro, 37) for samata, saumalla. If the reading snghaith Thamaa be accepted, it inay be taken to refer to budhasaraka, the Buddha's disciples who explain well the law'. The reading saghailhadhamae= sarikhatalhammake, "in the midst of life and death” (Fa-kheu-pi-u), would mean a phenomenal existence characterised by growth, persistence and decay. Prudhijane = Pali puthujjane, 'average men', a Buddhist technical terin that denotes persons below the rank of a golrabhi, and distinguished as good (kalyāra) and most common. Prudhi=Sk. prthah, other than (the instructed)' or prthu, stupid? (sthūla). For the change of pr to pr(s), cf. pradhuri, vv. 12-13; and for that of ak to i, cf. same=samyak, and note that . and i are interchangeable in the dialect of our text. Abhiroati= abhirocanti. M. Senart holds that it may very well be ised=atirocuti (Pāli), but that cannot be, since the uom. in the Prakrit text is in the plural.
The chapter contains 15 stanzas.
[5. Sahasavaga]
The naming of the chapter is, as before, ours. The exaltation of 'the one out of a thousand' forms the burden of the following group of 17 verses, and it is only in a few stanzas that the number 'hundred' is substituted for thousand'. The Number-group in the Pali Dhammapada (chap. vin.) and the Chinese Fa-kheu-king, (sec. XVI.), contains 16 stanzas. The whole of a Sahasravarga containing 24 gāthas is quoted in the Mahāvastu (I11, pp. 434-36), as "dharmaparleşul sahasravargah”, thereby undoubtedly presupposing an older Sanskrit recension, older, we mean than the Udāvavarga, and Sapskrit in the sense that it was the outcome of an earlier attempt at sanskritisation. The corresponding group in the Udãnavarga (chap. xxiv.) bas 31 verses. As to the number as well as the arrangement of the verses, these recensions differ, though they betray a common purpose in that they emphasize a particular fact, practice or principle by singling it out of a hundred or a thousand. And the practices or principles thus emphasized are all Buddhistic, sharply contrasted with those of the Brahmanic faith. The increase of mumbers in the later recensions
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