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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
(xxxi )
(6) Argument from the multiplication of particular rerscs :-— Besides the common verses, each copy of the Dhammapada contains some that were evidently drawn upon canonical sources, left untouched by the compilers of other copies. Further, each copy contains a number of verses peculiar to itself, and the se, in the absence of evidence proving the contrary, must be regarded as compositions of ils compiler. In discussing the question of chronology we have to leave ont of consideration the verses that were either newly added or composed on a new model, because chronological data can be derived only from those verses which were multiplied, rather mechanically, on a common basis. The process of multiplication just referred to is twofold: (I) the insertion within one original verse or group some new lines constructed out of some set Buddhist expressions, and (2) the substitution of new expressions. Three instances may suffice to illustrate the first process :
IPåli-Mā pamādam anuyuñjetha må kämaratisanthavari
Appamatto hi jhāyanto pappoti paramaṁ sukham. Prakrit-apramadi pramodia ma gami ratisabhamu
npramato hi jhayatu chaya dukhasa pranuni o apramadarata bhoda khano yu ma uvacai khanatita hi soyati niraeşu samapita o apramadarata bhoda sadhami supravedite drugha udhvaradha atmana pagasana va kuñaru O nai kalu pramadasa aprati asarachaye pramata duhu amoti siha ba muyamatia O nai pramadasamayı nprati asavachayi apramato hi jhayatı pranoti paramu suhu
One must note how the counterpart of one Pali verse has been multiplied in Prakrit to live by the insertion of 8 extra lines. But a more apposite instance is afforded by the second set of verses (p. 208) Il Pali-Yānimani apatthāni alăpuneva sirado
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