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admit frankly enough that the ceremony was already in vogue among the titthiyas, and secondly, the Jaina posaha, like the Vedic upavasatha, was a sole concern of the householders rather than of the mendicants as we find in the case of the Buddhist. This adherence of the Jainas to the original form takes the Jaina posaha to greater antiquity than the uposatha of the Buddhists who wrought a change in the original form (i.e. from social to monastic), in all probability, to claim a greater antiquity and novelty.
Abbreviations
Anag-Anagaradharmāmṛta.
BD-Book of Discipline (English Translation of Vinaya Pitaka by I.B. Horner).
Bhag Bhagavatīsūtra (Agamodaya Samiti Bombay). CV-Cullavagga (Nalanda-Devanagari-Pali-Series). DC-Darshana Aur Chintana (Pt. Sukhalalji Sanghavi). EBJ-Early Buddhist Jurisprudence (Miss Bhagwat). Kankha-Kankhävitarani, Edited by D.M. Stede. MV-Mahāvagga (Nalanda-Devanagari-Pali-Series). PM-Patimokkha, Edited by Dr. P. L. Vaidya. SED-Sanskrit-English-Dictionary (M.M. Williams). Tattva-Tattvärt hädhigama sūtra. Uva-Uvāsagadasao, Edited by Dr. P. L. Vaidya.
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