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SOME JAINA CANONICAL SUTRAS
aṇegabhūyabhāvabhavie vi bhavam)' The reply given by the Jaina teacher was based upon Syādvāda (Abhayadeva's commentary, p. 588, Calcutta Ed., samvat 1933).
This sutra has been edited with Abhayadeva Suri's commentary and published by the Agamodaya Samiti, Bombay, 1916. Another readable and critical edition has been published by Prof. N. V. Vaidya of the Fergusson College, Poona, 1940. Steinthal (Specimen der Nāyādhammakahā, Diss. Leipzig, 1881), W. Hüttemann, (Die Jñata Erzählungen im sechsten Anga des kanons der Jinisten, Strassburg, 1907), and E. Leumann (Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 3, 1889) have also carefully studied this sutra.
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1 Ibid., p. 77.
