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2018
declared his intention to edit the āgamas, and the assignment was taken up in the caturmāsa of the same year. Many obstacles were faced in the work of editing for want of the correct versions. Consequently we thought of correcting the text to begin with. The work was actually started in 2014 V.S. (1957 A D.) and brought to completion in 2037 V.S. (1980 A D.) as follows:Dasavedliyam
Vikram Samvat
2014 Uttarajjhayaņāņi
2016 Nandi, Aņuogadārāim
2018 Ovāiyam, Rāyapaseniyam
2018 Thāņam Samavão
2018 Süyagado
2019 Nāyādhammakahāo
2020 Āyāro, Ayāracūlā
2022 Uvāsagadasão, Antagadadasão
2026 Anuttarovavāiyadasão
2026 Vipāka
2028 Paņhāvāgaraņāim
2028 Nirayāvaliyão
2029 Bhagavai
2030 Paņpavaņā
2031 Dasão, Pajjosavaņākappo Kappo
2033 Vavahāro
2033 Jivājivābhigame
2034 Jambuddiva paņņatti
2035 Nisihajjhayanam
2035 Candapaņņatti, Sürapannatti
2037 It is well known to all working in this field that editing is the most difficult job, specially when the texts to be edited are separated by a gap of several millennia in respect of language, style and thought. It is unexceptionally true that a thought or a custom does not continue in its original shape through the ages. It invariably expands or contracts. The story of expansion and contraction is the story of change. "What is made up' is necessarily amenable to change. The insistence on the eternality of events, facts, thoughts and customs that are subject to change leads one to untruth and false imagination. The truth is 'what is made up' is necessarily transient. Whether 'made up' or 'eternal', it must needs be susceptible of change. Whatever there is must be of a nature that is not absolutely divorced from the stream of eternity and change.
It is possible that an idea or truth expressed by a particular word is capable
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