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above allusions that the origin of the schism of the Jain order into Svetambara and Digambara Sects, may lie somewhere here. The researchers should pay attention to this.
(142) See, Pars vanatha ka Caturyama Dharma.
(143) Op. cit., p.11.
(144) Ibid, pp. 12-13.
(145) Bhagvati Sūtra Sataka XV.
(146) Ibid. Sataka Ix, uddesaka VI, sūtra 386-87.
(147) Samyutta Nikaya, Dahara Sutta 3/1/10 (Cf.
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The Book of the Kindred Sayings, Tr. by Mrs. Rhys Davids, Vol. 1, pp. 93-96).
(148) Sutta Nipata Sabhiya Sutta, III-6 (Cf. Tr. by V. Fausboll S. B. E., vol. X, Part II, pp. 85-86).
It may be remarked here that in the canonical literature of the Buddhist, the Mahava of the Sutta Nipata is considered to be very old. V. Fausboll has observed: "The collection on discourses of (Sutta Nipata) which I have here translated is very remarkable, as there can be no doubt that it contains some remains of primitive Buddhism, consider the greater part of Mahavagga Sutta Nipata and nearly the whole of, Atthaka vagga as very old, (Cf. op. cit. Introduction p. I).
(149) Digha Nikaya, Samanjhaphala Sutta, 1/2. (Cf. Dialogues of the Buddha, Tr. by T. W. Rhys Davids, Vol. 1, p. 51).
(150) Kaumudi is full-moon day in Asvina or Kartika Cf. Sanskrit-English Dictionary of Vaman Shivaram Apte Ed. by P. K. Gode and C. G. Karve Part I, p. 611.
(150a)See, for the detailed discussion of these allusions the author's article titled 'Pali Vanmaya Mem Bhagavana Mahāvīra in Bhiksusmrti Grantha, Part II, pp. 6-10.
