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declared his intention to edit the agamas, and the assignment was taken up in the caturmasa 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:
Vikram Samvat
Dasave liyam Uttarajjhayapāņ!
Nandi, Apuogadáráim Ovaiyam, Rayapaseniyam
Thanam
Samavão
Süyagado
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Näyädhammakahão Ayaro, Ayāracula
Uvasagadasão, Antagadadasão Anuttarovaväiyadação
Vipäka
Panhavägaraṇāim Nirayavaliyão Bhagavai
Pannavaṇā
Dasão, Pajjosavapäkappo
Kappo
Vavaharo
JIvājlvabhigame
Jambuddiva pannattl
Nisthajjhayapam
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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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