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INTRODUCTION
Two such sub-commentaries are now available in their entirety and both are Śvetāmbarite. In brief the chief similarity of the two lies in that both take up word by word the bhāṣya that is Umāsvāti's own composition and explain the same. And while explaining the bhāṣya always to expound the Āgamic matter on the basis of the bhāṣya and whenever the bhāṣya goes against the Agama to lend support to the Agamic tradition in the end-this is the common aim of the two vṛttis in question. However, in spite of this much similarity there also obtains one difference between the two. Thus one of them-which is bigger in size-is a work by one single master, while the other-the smaller oneis a joint work of three masters. At the end of the chapters of the bigger Vrtti-about 1800 slokas in extent-we mostly find mention to the effect that it is bhāṣyānusāriņī (=one following the bhāṣya); but the smaller vṛtti has got at the end of its different chapters mentions that are somehow or other different from one another. Thus at one place (i. e. in the closure of chapter one) we have Haribhadraviracitāyām (=in the one composed by Haribhadra), at another place (i. e. at the end of the chapter two, four and five) we have Haribhadroddhṛāyām (=in the one recovered by Haribhadra), at a third place (i. e. at the end of chapter six) we have Haribhadrarabdhyāyām (=in the one begun by Haribhadra), at the fourth place (i. e. at the end of chapter seven) we have 'prārabdhāyām' instead of 'ārabdhāyām'; again at one place (i. e. at the end of chapter six) we have Yasobhadrācāryaniryūdhāyām (=in the one restored by the master Yasobhadra), at another place (i. e. at the end of chapter ten) we have Yaśobhadrasūrisiṣyanirvāhitāyām (=in the one got restored by Yaśobhadrasūri's disciple); and meanwhile at one place (i. e. at the end of chapter eight) we have taccaivānyakartṛrkāyām (=in the same composed by someone else), at another place (i. e. at the end of chapter nine) we have tasyām evānyakartṛkāyām (=in that itself composed by someone else).
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In the view of linguistic style of these mentions and the absence of a proper compatibility among the same one is
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