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INTRODUCTION
more verse is found in the printed edition of the bare text as well as the manuscripts of the text, but it is not found in any of the manuscripts of the text with the commentary. This verse occurs before the last verse in the text and is clearly interpolated, for there is no commentary found on it. This verse pays reasoned homage to the doctrine of Anekanta and tender salutation to it. From the contents of the verse, therefore, it seems that some clever scholar who regarded the doctrine of Anekanta as his own favourite doctrine and who was attracted to this work on account of its peculiar features and the importance of the doctrine of Anekanta discussed in it, composed the present verse and interpolated it in the text of Sanmati. The verse runs as follows:
जेण विणा लोगस्स वि ववहारो सव्वहा ग णिघडइ । तस्स भुवणेक्कगुरुणो णमो अगंतवायरस
"Salutation to the
revered doctrine of Anekanta which is the preceptor of this whole Universe and without which the daily intercourse of human beings is not at all possible."
The volume of the commentary is as big as 25000 verses. Among the great works in the Swetambara or the Digambara works before the 10th century the present commentary is almost unparalleled in volume, as far as Samskṛta works written therein are concerned. There is not a single available Vedic Bauddha or Jaina Samskṛta work on philosophy written before the 10th century which contains matter as bulky as 25000 verses.
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