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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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their first three chapters are arranged in the following order :i. Yamakavagga forming the 29th chapter in the
nd pair. 2. Appamādavagga forming the 4th chapter.
8. Cittavagga forming the 31st chapter. On the other hand, the first three chapters in the second pair of texts are arranged as shown below :
1. Anityavarga corresponding with the Jarāvagga
the 11th chapter in the 1st pair. 2. Kāmavarga baving its counterpart in the Piya
vagga--the 16th chapter of the 1st pair. 3. Trgnāvarga being an amplified version of the
Tanhāvagga of the 1st pair, placed immediately
before the Bhikkhu. It is impossible to make a definite statement regarding the number and succession of chapters in the Prakrit text and in the Mahāvastu Dhammapada, though we are on a somewhat surer ground as regards the former work. As we have already noticed, the Prakrit Dhammapada shows a far closer kinship in its general form with the 1st pair of texts than it does with the 2nd pair, particularly the arrangement of three chapters in it, viz., 2-4, is exactly on a par with that in the Pali and in the Fa-kheu-king original. Moreover, whatever the precise succession of the Tasavaga, the Bhikhu and the Bramana in it, M. Senart's Fac-simile of the Plate B of the Kharoạthi Ms. goes to prove that they are closely bound up in thought as in the texts of the 1st pair. Arguing from the arrangement of the 1st three chapters, the two pairs of texts can be shown to represent two distinct periods of literary growth within Buddhism, the earlier period being represented by the Pāli Dhammapada and the Fa-khen-king ori inal. For the sequence of thought in the first three chapters of these two texts is so much in line with that in a Chandogya passage that one car not but think the former was merely a systematic carrying
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