Risht Samucchaya

Author(s): Durgadevacharya, A S Gopani
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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THE RISTASAMUCCAYA
having seen bad dreams while the SRS' is uniformly silent on the point of time-limit. This shows that the RS, though it is similar in most of the respects to the SRS rather than to any other works, Jaina or non-Jaina, has inherited a tradition, different from that inherited by the SRS", the origin of which may perhaps be found in the MK.
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The RS declares his life to be soon ending if he sees all the directions greenish (132) while the SRS' grants him three days' life, the difference to be noted being this that he should be seeing everything yellow (198).
There is a noticeable difference, between the RS and the SRS', in connection with the phenomenon of the flies attaching persistently to the whole body. The former blesses him with six months' life (138) while the latter curses him with 15 instantaneous death (190).
Also with regard to the device of seeing a face in water, oil etc. there is a definite disagreement between the RS and the SRS' the former granting a lease of six months' life if a sick person is not able to see well the reflection of his face in water, 20 oil etc. (143; 147) and the latter prescribes immediate death for the same abnormal experience (61).
The scheme of the also differentiates the RS from the SRS". As I have said before in the beginning of this section, it is split up into the (sts. 153-157) and 25(158, 159) and also is again referred to with special variation at the time of describing the (193-198). The essential difference is constituted of the fact that the RS says to imagine bright half on the left hand and dark half on the right (156; 195). This is clearly contradicted by the SRS' (208; 210) which is 30 substantially followed up by the YS' also'. Moreover, according to the RS, the person lives for as many days, months or years as there are black dots on the joint of the finger (159). This of the RS is, indeed, different from that found in the SRS' and the YS'. But the outlined in sts. 193-198 of 35 the RS under the is, no doubt, exactly similar in signi ficance to that of the SRS and the YS", if we are to let go a minor difference which becomes evident when the RS enjoins to imagine bright half on the left hand and dark half on the right (195), while the SRS' and the YS' state just the reverse. 1 See App. XIII, pp. 104-105; sts. 129-134.