Cauppannamahapurisacariam

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INTRODUCTION

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Conservation and transformation Should not be regarded as contradictota tendencies Both are tho result of Ideological ' considerations. Firat a transformation Was necessary m order to bring the Stomes into harmony w1th the Jmistic doctrine In generat and With the System of the VH in particular But Sooner or later the process came to an end j si ), and henceiorWard the stones beeame asunchangeable M the dogma 1tself -Transformations os a disserent character resulten imm the productionos innumerable parallel versions Which are nerther reatly mdependent, nor anyWhere reatly adenticat as u the case w1th certam portions of the Brahmamcal Puranas in These transformations are os various

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account silanka's Version 15 not only ancomplete, but he is also the only author Who separates the account of Mahisira's preVIous existences irom the Mahavir carita itseli. See SOM pp 62 ff. The difficulties in the composition of the VH which have rust been described are due to the collisum of tWo principies of formation, vra remeamation and systematic coordination s* 10 ὶ A shistimm the first to the second method probably became necessary when the VH was enlarged to 1is present proportions In the avatara-concept both methoes Uere combined, but this was for obvious reasons 1mpossibie in the case of the VII oi the Jams The final form of the VH thereiore shows fruo chams Whicli exist fide by fide and meet three times in the lite-stones of Marici, Tripi htha, and

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the t1me The data supplied by HemaCandra are also tess complete than in the case of the Tirtha aras Moreover, Hemacandra has no stutis, Whereas silaina introduces the Cantas ot some of the C ravaritas and trials with the usual gatha Whicli alludes to the experiences and actions of the respective

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Sanathumara

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