A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c5.25

c5.25

It appears that we have no means to know the number of *niṣadyās* pertaining to the remaining 10 *Gaṇadharas*; but it is certain that at least one of them had a recourse to fifteen *niṣadyās*.⁴ This shows that this particular *Gaṇadhara*, at least, was rather backward in intelligence as compared with Indrabhūti; or else why should he have been obliged to put such a big number of questions as 15? Furthermore, we do not know the actual answers given by Lord Mahāvīra by way of replies to these 15 *niṣadyās*; but it seems highly probable that *tripadī* might have played therein the main part, if not the sole part.