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Sumati-Jnāna There was a "gradual development within medieval Jainism of a process by which commentary gradually came to be viewed as āgama...”.
Without overinterpreting what we have read in Abhayadevasūri's colophon we may characterise his attitude to his wonderful and most important work as responsible and modest. He carried it out to the best of his knowledge, with a strong belief in the Jaina creed, striving for harmony in his community and with a scientific approach scholars of today could take as an example with regard to truthfulness, discrimination and admission of limited knowledge.
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END NOTES 1. I am very thankful to Thomas kruempelmann for checking my English. 2. In his very informative article "Somnolent Sūtras: Scriptural Commentary in Svetāmbara Jainism",
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