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6. Nisadha A lake in Devakurā(1) to the south of mount Mamdara(3), River Sitodā passes through it dividing it into two parts.? 1. Jam. 99, Sth. 434.
| 2. Jam. 84. 7. Ņisadha First chapter of Vaṇhidasă.
1. Nir. 5.1. Nisadhakūļa (Nişadhakūta) See Nisadha(5).1
1. Jam. 84, Sth. 522. Nisaha (Nisadha ) See Nisadha.
1. Sth. 689, Jam. 83, Jiv. 141, Sam. 94, Sth, 434. Nisabaküda (Nişadhakūta ) Same as Nişadha(5).
1. Jam. 104. Nisāda or Nisāya (Nişāda) One of the nine mixed castes. It originated by the union of Brāhmaņa man with a Sūdra woman.2 1. AcaN, 22-3.
2. SutSi. p. 177, SutCu. p. 218. Ņisīha (Niśītha ) An Amgabāhira Kālia text." It is in prose and is divided into twenty chapters. It deals with the rules governing the conduct of monks and nuns and prescribes atonements and penances for various transgressions. It mentions certain exceptions also to the general rules. Its authorship is attributed to Visāhagaņi.Formerly it was a part of Āyāra viz. Ayārapakappa, but later it was separated from it.3
iterally means darkness which symbolises secretness. Since the study of this text was confined to a few deserving candidates and it was kept back from knowledge of others, it is styled as Nisīha, i.e. secret. Its other names are Pakappa, Ayārakappa(2), Ayārapakappa and Ņisihacūlā.5
1. Nan. 44, Pak. p. 44, NanM. p. 206. 4. See Nisitha : Eka Adhyayana, by Pt. 2. NisCu. IV. p. 395.
Dalsukh Malvania. See also NisBh, 673. AcaN. 344, AcaCu. p. 4, NisBh. 70, 6700-3.
4,6500, Sams. p. 48, SthA, p. 325. 5. For references see those words.
See Ņisiha-Visesa-cuņņi.1
Ņisiha-Cunni (Niśītha-cūrni)
1. NisCu. IV. p. 226.
Nisībacūlä (Niśīthacūdā ) It is the same as Nisiha.1 Formerly it served as an appendix (cülā) to Āyāra.
1. NisCu. I. p. 1.
Ņisiha-visesa-cuņņi (Niśītha-viśeşa-curņi) A commentary on Ņisīha,' by Jinadāsagani? mahattara. It is different from the Nisīha-cunni commentary composed by some other author perior to Jinadāsagani.3 1. NisCu. I. p. 1.
2. Ibid. IV (Subodhā Vyakhyā) p. 443, 3. Ibid. I. p. 1.
& Ibid. Int. pp. 46-48
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