A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.240

c8.240

From this it follows that *Cittantaragaṇḍiya* was available to him-a fact corroborated by its description given by him in *Nandicuṇṇi*. But this inference is not valid. For, by taking into account the date *Śaka Saṃvat* 598 (*Saṃvat* 733) mentioned by him as the year in which he completed *Nandicuṇṇi* and the date of the extinction of *Puvvagaya* viz., *Vīra Saṃvat* 1000 (*Saṃvat* 530), it seems more reasonable to believe that he got the traditional information about the contents of the *Aṇuoga* rather than to say that he had this part of the *Āgama* directly accessible to him.