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all the discourses of it and handed them down to his pupil. Thus all the Jain scriptures owe their existence to the good offices of these two monks. It was only in the fifth century A. D. (i. e., in the year 454 or 467 A. D.) that its form was finally settled and reduced to writing. चउद्दसपुव्वी, possessing knowledge of 14 gas, i. e., old and ancient works of the Jains.
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the description of as is found, e. g., in the उवासगदसाओ, 876.
5. मियापुत्ते य...... ..gives the list of ten persons whose lives are described in the , i. e., in the first part of the present work.
7. The setting of a Jain narrative is stereotyped, and usually mentions a town ( in the present narrative), a garden (qua), a Yakṣa and his temple (g), a king (facrer), a queen ( मिया ), a prince ( मियापुत्त ) and few other prominent persons such as householders and merchants as the need arises. There are also stereotyped descriptions of these to which reference is given in the वर्णकादिविस्तारः, but which are referred to by 'वण्णओ' in the body of the text.
8. मियापुत्ते नामं दारए - This boy was blind by birth (er), dumb by birth, deaf by birth, crippled since birth. He was deformed, paralytic, and had no limbs such as hands, feet, etc., and therefore was more or less a ball of flesh.
