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4. ' DWĀTRIMŚIKASI OF SIDDHASENA
The present available Dwātrimśikās are twenty-one in number. Adding to them Siddhasena's Nāyāvatāra, the total comes to twenty-two. A brief survey of all these Dwā. is given below from three points of view :
1 The chief source of information about the life of Siddhasena is his works. Among all his works the place of Dwa is very high, in fact, it is even higher than that of Sanmati. A critical review, therefore, of the Dwá. is not only relevant, but absolutely essential. We have, therefore, attempted here to give a brief review of those Dwā.
At present, we have with us a printed edition of the Dwā. published by the Jaina-Dharma-Prasaraka-Sabhā of Bhăwanagara. The order of the Dwå found therein does not seem to be the original order when the work was compiled. In course of time, the scribes or the readers might have arranged them in the present order. At the end of some Dwå. occur the names of those particular Dwā, while other Dwā. have no particular names assigned to them. It seems, therefore, that originally these Dwa. were not named at all, but subsequentiy the names were invented and applied to these Dwă. Though, as the very word Dwă. suggests, every Dwå, is expected to have 32 verses precisely, in the present edition some of the Dwā. have less and some have greater number of verses. According to right calculation, all the twenty-two Dwā., available at present, ought to have 704 verses in all ; but the number of verses in the present edition is only 695. In the 21st Dwā, there are 33 verses instead of 32, while in the Dwä., Nos, 8, 11, 15 and 19 there are verses less than 32 in number. Whether this number (sometimes less and sometimes greater than the expected number of 32) is due to subsequent handling or whether it was so at the time of the actual compilation of those Dwa. or whether
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