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³ *Ind. Ant.*, 1892, p. 157. Fleet (*Ibid.*) pp. 156ff : *J.R.A.S.* 1909, p. 23n) is sceptical about the Jain story. Jacobi (*Parishishṭaparvan*, pp. vi—vii ; *Kalpasūtra* p. 22) thinks that some works, e.g., the *Niruktas*, attributed to the sixth Patriarch, who died in 170 A.V., really proceeded from the pen of a late namesake. According to him the *Samacharis* may be regarded as the work of the great Bhadrabāhu.