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Vide Studies in the Bhagavati Sūtra, p.477. Bhagavan Sutta 5, 4, 190, Suttāgame 1, p.477 (i) It may also aim at showing the contrast that the Vedic priests honoured Sanskrit because it was the language of Gods; but in Jainism gods honoured Ardhamagadht because it was the language of the common people. (ii) Jaina gods that way arc sociable and polite: “Devā vi tassa panamamti jassa dhamme sayā mano." "Even gods bow down to them whose mind is ever absorbed in picty.” : Dasaveyaliya Sutla, 1. 1. (i) Vide observations of Mahendrakumar Nyayacarya, Preface to Adipurana, I Bharatiya Jnanapitha, Kashi, 1963. (ii) Väkpatiraja in his Gaudavaho (v.93) similarly compares Prakrit, the hatural language, with the occan, whence all water comes and wherein it merges. Perhaps owing to this fact some of the sentences in Ayaramga compare well with those in the Buddhist Dhammapada and Suttanipāta. Vide Jain Sahity Kā Brhat Itihās (Part 11), Varanasi 1966, p.98. (i) Jinadasagani (7th cent. A.D.) nicely puts forth this possibility in his Nisītha Cūrni. Pt. Haragovindadas Sheth strongly defends this view refuting authors in his intro. to the Pāiasaddamahannavo (Revised edition), pp. 32-34. (i) This is obviously Western Magadha area. (i) The twelve-year famine and the consequent migration and return of a bulk of the group of monks is one of the causes of such changes. (ii) Dr. P.B. Pandit observes that from the point of view of place the Jaina Canon is linguistically less influenced than that of the Buddhist one. Vide Prakrta Bhasā, Benares 1954,
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