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Viyahapanpatti
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sand vyākaranas and eightyfour thousand padas, whereas according to Nardi it has the same number of adhyayanas etc. but a different number of padas, i. e. two lakh and eightyeight thousand padas. Abhayadevasūri endorses the view of Namdi. At the end it is mentioned that it has 138 Šatakas (sections) and 1925 uddías (chapters ). There is quoted a gatha in the work, which says that this Amga contains 84 lakh padas.?
As regards the subject matter of this text, it discusses a number of topics which cover ethics, philosophy, cosmology, mathematics, biographies and the like. There is no inter-connection between different sections as well as between different chapters of one and the same section.
By way of cross-references the names of the following canonical texts are mentioned in it. Ovavdiya, Pannavaņā, Rāyappagenaiya, Nadi, Jivabhigama, Samayāya, Jambuddįvapaņnatti, Aņuogaddāra and Avassaya. Similarly it is referred to in Vivāgasuya, Avassaya-cunpi, Nisihacunni etc.
There existed some old commentaries both in Prakrit and Sanskrit on this work, when Abhayadevasūri composed his voluminous commentary on it10 in V. S. 1128.11
This text is intended to be taught to a monk of ten years standing.!* The author of Titthogāli had predicted that its extinction would take place in V. N. 1250.13
In the biginning of the text pañca-paramesthin, Brahma(7), śruta etc. are remembered by way of salutation. It is popularly known as Bhagavatis sūtra. See also Vivāha, Vivāhapannati, Pannatti(1), Viyāha as other names of Viyāhapannatti. 3. Sam. 84, 140. Titthogāli endorses 9. Vip. 9, AvaCu. I. pp. 2, 283, 299, this view. See Tir, 813.
Vis, 4285, NisCu. I. pp. 33, 79, II, 4. Nan. 50,
p. 238, NanCu. p. 65, VyaBh. 4.394, 5. BhaA, p. 5.
JitBh. 1105. 6. BhaA, pp. 978,
10. BhaA. pp. 1,12, 17, 23, 84, 98, 7. Ibid. p. 979.
154, 185, 306, 492, 640, 644, 676, 8. Bha. 9, 15, 98, 115, 134, 155, 164,
684, 704-5, 918, SthA. p. 298. 170, 193, 203, 203, 243, 251, 273, 11. BhaA. p. 981. 281-2, 300, 318, 322, 362, 384, 466, 12. Vya. 10.24. 493, 647, 732, 802.
13. Tir. 811.
1. Viraa (Virajas) One of the eighty-eight Gahas. It is not mentioned in Țhāņa.
1. Sur. 107, Jam. 170, Jams. p. 535. 2. Viraa One of the six layers of B.:mbhaloga.?
1. Sth. 516.
Virati Second chapter of Viyahapanpatti,
1. Bha. 260,
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