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evidence, but the problem is so vast that even its preliminaries, viz., carefully and systematically -edited texts under an organised group of editors, are -I106 yet in sight.
The Uvāsagadasão or the religious duties of an Uvāsaga expounded in ten chapters, is intended to explain and illustrate the eeveral vows and rules of donduct which a devout Jain layman is expected to observe. It is thus, in a way, a counterpart to the Ācārāógasūtra which sets forth rules of conduct of a Jain monk. The book is divided into ten chapters or lectures called ajjhayana. The first of these enumerstes, in minute detail, the vows and observances which Ananda, Mabāvīra's disciple, anil his wife, Sivanandā, undertake in the presence of Mahāvira himself. It is further shown how Ānanda practised these vows and observances for a period of twenty years with the result that he acquired avadhijñāna. As the narrative of Āņanda is merely a rūpaka, it is suggested that every Jain should observe the vows to obtain similar results.
The next four lectures are intended to illustrate the various kinds of temptations arising from external persecutions, uvasaggas, to which the observance might expose a Jain uvāsaga. The second lecture, for instance, shows how Kāmadeva withstood the temptation of giving up his vows even though his
