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Besides the Nijjutti I possess a fragment of a second metrical treatment of the avasyaka, which is, however, confined to vardana and paccakkara. The former is divided into two sections, caityavardana and guru. The text is only partially based upon the Nisfutti. There is an avacūri (cūrni) to it from the commentary of a Somasundara (from the Candragaccha). This avacūri can be traced back to a.' Jñanasāgara,
[77] XLV. The third mūlasūtram, dasaveāliasuakkharndha, daśavatkdlika, or merely : dasaalia, 104 daśakälika. It consists of ten ajjhayapas, which are composed in ślokas, with the exception of a few prose sections. There are furthermore two chapters called cūlá (and hence secondary1043) of similar contents. These are in gåthås. After them follow four gåthås, in which Sijjambhava, according to the old theravali (Nandi, Kalpas) the fourth patriarch after Mahavira, is stated to be the author;1046 but his son Ajja-Mañaga and his pupil Jasabhadda1045 are mentioned in connection with him. This is indeed a claim of great antiquity for the author.
The contents refers to the vinaya, and is clothed in a very ancient dress. That this is the case is proved by the close of a chapter : it bemi (also in the case of the two cūlās !) and by the introduction : suam me ausam in the prose sections (with the exception of that in cūla 1), The dasaveāliam (see p. 11) is mentioned in the Nandi as being in the forefront of the ukkāliya group of the anaṁgapavittha texts; its position here, however, almost at the end, does not agree with the prominent place ascribed to it by N. It appears elsewhere as the last or smallest of the agama (if I understand the words correctly; the preceding leaf is wanting in the Berlin MS - see p. 214) in Hemac. [78] in the parišiştap 9, 99, and in the commentary on Nemicandra's pravacanasära, v. 1445, where Duhprasaha, the last of the 2004 sūris which Nemic. accepts, is designated as daśavaikälikamatrasūtradharo 'pi caturdaśapūrvadhara iva sakrapūjyaḥ. The author of the Āvasy, nijj. asserts (2,5) that he composed a nijjuti on it. A MS. of a nijjutti which recognizes the cūliyā is found in Peterson's Palm-leaf
1042 Thus in Av. nijj. 2, 5 and in the Vidhiprapa. 1043 This is evident from the title dasakalian itself. At the time that the four
gathās were added at the end, these two culas had not yet been affixed, since
the text in v. 1 is called, as one might expect from its title, merely dasajjhayanam. 1044 According to v. 37 of the kalasat tari it was composed in the year 98 Vira. 1045 These three names rocur in the same connection in the therav. of the Kalpas.
sBrabhadda is also in the Nandi the fifth successor of Vira.
