A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c5.40

c5.40

Malayagiri Sūri has reproduced this very view in his com. (p. 240b) on *Nandī*. Abhayadeva Sūri, too, has done the same as can be seen from his which says that on 14 *Puvvas* being composed, the remaining portion of *Diṭṭhivāya* was composed, and then the 11 *Aṅgas* commencing with *Āyāra* and ending with *Vivāgasuya*. But this seems to be the natural course to have been followed; for, it is too much to believe that the composition of the 14 *Puvvas* was immediately followed by that of the 11 *Aṅgas*, thus leaving the remaining 4 sections of *Diṭṭhivāya* to be attended to, last.