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A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.193

A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.193

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c8.193

The Digambaras believe that Kundakunda Ācārya has composed 84 *Pāhuḍas* out of which 8 are available at present; but, herein I am not dealing with any one of them; for, I am here concerned with the Śvetāmbara literature on this point; and, moreover, these 8 extant *Pāhuḍas* do not form a part of the canonical literature. I may say that in this literature, nowhere a list of all the *Pāhuḍas* is given; but we can surely collect the stray references which give us the names of the following *Pāhuḍas*:—