Uvasagdasao

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descriptive passages and recurring expressions referred to only by the device of jāva. Again, there are occasionally references and cross-references in works. which indicate priority of certain compositions, as for instance, reference in the Uväsagadasão to Pannatti, i.e., Bhagavatisūtra, the story of Pūraṇa and Sankha narrated in the Bhagavatīsūtra. Then again we refer·· to the recurring story of Dadhapainna which is found in the Oravaiya, Rāyapaseṇiya and the Bhagavattsutra (see page 191 of the present book) where the existing text of that book makes mention of ovavāiya. The commentators also mention in serveral places that a particular descriptive passage is not to be found in certain mss. of the work. Certain anomalies in. this respect are also referred to by them. I should like to mention one example of anomalous sequence of such passages which occurs in the Uvāsagadasão. The description of the sacred car, reference to which occurs first in section 59 of this edition, should have been given in full there and then; but it occurs in section 206. The commentator on section 59 remarks that the full description would be found in chapter VII. i. e., in section 206. Perhaps in some mss. even there the description was not given in full as can be seen from the commentator's remark:
पुस्तकान्तरे यानवर्णको दृश्यते स चैवं सव्याख्यानोऽवसेयः It would indeed be an interesting study to examine the chronological order of the compilation of several books of the Jain cannon on the strength of internal
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