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well. Like the other chedasütras this chedasütra prescribes rules for the life to be led by monks and nuns and atonements and penances by way of punishment for various transgressions against these rules of daily life. Thus all the chedasutras have almost the same contents as we meet with, under the name of Vinaya in Buddhist literatare. As observed by Winternitz this Niśithasútra which deals with the discipline of the order "has embodied the major portion of the Vavahara in its last sections and has numerous similar sūtras in common with culas I and II of the Äyaramga. Probably these works originated in one and the
same earlier source." 19 I
Begins. fol. rb ॥ ६० ॥ नमो वीतरागाय ॥
Ends. fol. 32
f(f) etc., up to as in No. 439 followed by णिसीहे वीसइमो उद्देसो उ समत्तो ॥
etc., as in No. 439.
Reference.--- Published along with Vyavaharasūtra by W. Schubring, Leipzig, in A. D. 1918. It is also published with (Bṛhat )Kalpasūtra and Vyavaharasutra by Jaina Sahitya Samsodhaka Samiti, Poona, in A. D. 1923 in Devanagari characters, under the title " 'कल्प-व्यवहार- निशीथसूत्राणि " For contents etc., see Weber II, p. 623, Indian Antiquary, vol. XXI, p. 180, and Peterson Reports I, p. 88. For additional Mss. see B. B. R. A. S. vols. III-IV, p. 393 and G. O. Series vol. XXI, p. 31. G. Bühler's Report on Sanskrit Mss. (pp. 4-5 ) for 1872-73, Bombay, 1874 and Z. D. M. G. (vol. XLII, p. 550), Leipzig, 1888 may be also consulted.
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1 See "A History of Indian Literature" (vol. II, pp. 464-465 published by the University of Calcutta, in A. D. 1933.
Nisithasutra 740.
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