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to contain a discussion of the first of these 6 avaśyakas (the samaiyam), but that this claim is antagonistic to that limitation of the samdiam to the sävajjajogaviratim which frequently secures the Anny. By this limitation an ethical character is ascribed to the work, the contents of which is, furthermore, at variance with the claim mode by the Anuy.
The avaśyakasūtram is a work which deals with all the six avaś yakas in the order996 which is followed in the Nandi and Anuyogadvāra, and discusses the samãiam actually, not merely nominally as the Anuyog, does. Unfortunately we possess, not the text of the avasy., but merely the commentary, called sisyahita, of an Haribhadra,997 which is as detailed as that on mulas,
1. Of this commentary, there is but one MS., which, though written regularly enough, is very incorrect and fails in every way to afford the reader any means of taking a survey of its contents by the computation of the verses, etc. It labours under the defect of such manuscript commentaries in citing 998 the text with the pratikas only and not in full, with the exception of foll.73 to 1536999 and some other special passages. The text is divided according to the commentary into [52] the six ajjhayanas, with which we are already acquainted :-1, the samālam, the sävajjojogavirai, which extends to fol. 1960, 2. the cauvisaithava or praise of the 24 Jinas, extending to 204, 3. vandanayam or honour paid to the teachers, reaching to 221, 4. paḍikkamanam, confession and renunciation (to 298°), 5. kaussaga, expiation to (315), and 6. paccakkhāņam, acceptation of the twelve vratas (to 342").
By' sāmāiam much more than the savajjajogavirati is meant. It is etymologically explained by samānāṁ Jñānadarśanacāritrānām āyaḥ (35). It treats not merely of the doctrine of Mahavira on this point, but also of the history of the doctrine itself, i.e. of the predecessors of Mahav., of himself, of his eleven gaṇaharas and of his opponents, the
996 See p. 434 on this arrangement.
997 At the close he is called a pupil of Jinadatta from the Vidyadharakula, or an adherent of Sitambaracārya Jinabhața samaptā ce yam sisyahitä nämä "vasyakatika kytiḥ Sitambaracarya Jinabhatanigadānusarino Vidyadharakulatilakacarya Jinadattasik syasya dharmato joini (yakini !) -mahattar ämnänäralpamanara(?) carya "Haribhadrasya. The Ganadharasardhasata is here referred to (cf. v. 52 fg) and the great Haribhadra (+ Vira 1055): see p. 371, 372 456 fg. In Peterson's Detailed Report (1883) we find cited (pp. 6-9) under No. 12 a vytti of a Śri-Tilakācārya, scholar of Sivaprabha, composed Samvat 1296.
993 342 foll. Each page has 17 lines of 58-62 aks, each. 993 Nijj 3, 315-9, 3.
