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Usabha, the first of their number. In the introduction it is of extreme interest to notice the statements of the author in reference to his own literary activity. It is as follows :
titthayare bhagavaṁte / anuttaraparakkame amiaņāņi / tinne sugaigaigae / siddhi pahapā esae vaṁde 1/1/1 vardāmi mahābhāgaṁ | mahāmuṇiḥ mahāyasaṁ Mahäviraṁ amaranararāyamahiam | titthayaram imassa titthassa 1/2|| ikkarasa vi ganahare / pavāyāe parayanassa vamdami / savvar ganaharavaṁsam / vayagavaṁsaṁ pavayanar ca /31/ te vaṁdiūna sirasă | atthapuhuttassa 007 tehim kahiassa / suanäņassa bhagavao / niyyuttim1008 kittaissämi 1/4|| avassagassa dasakā | liassa taha uttarajjha-m-āyāre1009 / suagade niyyuttiñ / bucchāmi taha dasāņaṁ ca 1/5/1 kappassa ya niyyuttiṁ / vavaharasse 'va paramaniuņassa süriapannattie / bucchaṁ isibhäsiänam1010 ca 1/6|| eesiṁ niyyuttim. bucchāmi aham jiņoväeseņaṁ / äharanaheukārana- / payaņivaham iņaṁ samāseņaṁ 117|| sämäiani yyutti / bucchař uvāesiar gurujaņenam / āyariaparampareņa | agayaṁ åņupuvio 1/8/1 niyyutta to atthä / jam baddha teņa hoi niyyutti / taha vi ai cchavei / vibhāsiuṁ suttaparivādi /19/1
There is no doubt that we have here the beginning of a work, [58) and that chapter 1 (which is itself called pithikā, support, complement) did not yet precede these verses at the period of their origin.1011 From v. 5 and 8 we learn that the author does not intend to write an introduction merely for this second chapter, but that his work is designed for all the dvaśyaka matter and especially the sāmäiam. The separate statements of his account show that he intended to carry his investigations into the first two angas too, the fifth upāngam, three
1007 Arthaprthutvam. 1008 süträrthayoḥ parasparam niryojanam niryuktih; - kim aśeşasya śrutajñanas ya?
no, kim tarhi? Śrut aviseşānām āvaśyakādinām ity ata evā 'ha: avassao; : niryukti . is perhaps an intentional variation of nirukti. 1009 samudayasabdanām avaya ve vyttidarśanād, yatha Bhimasena Sena iti, uttarādhya
ity uttarādhyayanam avašeyam. 1010 deveṁdrastavādinām. 1011 They are placed thus in a palmleaf MS, No. 23, in Peterson's Det. Report
(1883) (only 1, 51 ābhinibohia... see p. 56, precedes) at the beginning of a text entitled "niryuktayah." which contains at least several, if not all, of the above 10 niry.
