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KALPA SÚTRA.
INTRODUCTION.
EM. OM.* Adoration to the propitious Pársvanatha.
Having prostrated myself before the glorious Mahávíra, and brought before the mind Gautama, the Religious Instructor, I proceed to expound the Kalpa Sútra in the comment called the Kalpalata.
Religion is the vital principlet of the world,
* Em means the female energy or cause of the world, and Om the male, answering to our material and efficient causes. This line is merely prefixed by the scribe, and does not belong to the work.
+ I have rendered TT by these two phrases, as the best I could think of.
The whole sentence which holds here so important a place is as follows:
धर्मी जगतस्मारः। सर्वमुखानां प्रधानहेतृत्वात्। तखोत्पत्तिर्मनुजाः। सारं तेनेव मानुष्ये ॥ .
