A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c5.27

c5.27

As already said on p. 3, on the whole, 11 *dvādaśāṅgīs* were composed by 11 *Gaṇadharas*, one by each of them. It, however, so happened that the *dvādaśāṅgīs* of the 8th and the 9th *Gaṇadharas* not only tallied in meaning, but even in the compilation of words, and so did the *dvādaśāṅgīs* of the 10th and the 11th *Gaṇadharas*.⁵