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different schisms (ninhagas, nihnavas) which gradually gained a foothold in his teachings. The latter are chronologically fixed. Haribbadra quotes very detailed legends (kathānakas) in Prakrit prose (sometimes in metre) in this connection and also in connection with the dithamta and udāharana which are frequently mentioned in the text. These legends have doubtless been borrowed from one of his predecessors whose commentary was composed in Prakrit. The remarks of this predecessor, cited elsewhere either directly as those of the Bhāşyakara (see on Nijj. 10, 47), or without further comment or mention of his name, he has incorporated into his own commentary. This too was here and there composed in Prakrit. Occasional reference is made to a mülaţika (see on Nijj. 19,1,2), which in turn appears to have been the foundation of the Bhåşyakara.
(53) Even if we do not possess the text of the sadāvasyakasūtram with its six ajjhayanas which was commented upon by Haribhadra, our loss is to a great degree compensated by a metrical Nijjutti. This is even called avas yakasūtram at the close in the MSS., and is probably the only Āvasy. text which is extant.1000 At least Haribhadra regarded it as an integral portion of his text. He has incorporated it, with but a few omissions, into his commentary, and commented upon it verse for verse. He cites its author not merely as Niryuktikri, kara, (c.g. on chap. 16, 17) as Saṁgrahaņikāra, as Mūlabhāsyakrt (e.g. 2,135) or oven merely as Bhäşyakara (e.g. on 2,70,142, i.e. just as the author of the above-mentioned commentary in Prakrit prose) but also occasionally as graṁthakāra, okrt (see for example Nijj. 8,44,10,95) and even as sūtrakārā, okst (e g. Nijj. 1,76' 16, 80). The verses of the Nijj. are occasionally called1001 sūtras by him ! From a consideration of these facts we are led to the conclusion that the sole difference between the text commented on by Har, and the Nijj. lies in the different divisionthe text being divided into 6, the Nijj. into 20 ajjhayaņas. See below. The fact that Har. does not cite at all some sections of the Nijjutti (for example the Theravali at the very start) may, however, be held to militate against the above conclusion. His text too contains besides the Nijj. several other parts, chiefly in prose, (54) which he calls sūtras or words of the sūtrakara (see Nijj. 13, 53), e.g. especially a pratikramanasūtram given in extenso. He furthermore occasionally contrasts
1000 Cf., however, the avasyakaśrut askandha in Kielhorn's Report, 1881, p. 92, and
the sadāvasyakasūtram in Bühler's paper in the Journal of the Vienna Acad, 1881,
p. 574.
1001 e. g. tatha ce 'ho 'padesik am gāthasūtram aha Niryuktikarah: samsāra (2.18).
