A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.245

c8.245

This finishes the exposition about the contents of *Parikamma* etc. So, as stated on p. 75, I shall now deal with the order in which the five sections of *Diṭṭhivāya*¹ became mostly² extinct. Up till now none seems to have tackled this problem. I am probably the 1st to have done so in 1939 in *Tattvarasikacandrikā* (pt. I, pp. 52-55) in Gujarātī. I do not know if any one has even criticized my views by this time. So, once more I express them³ in this connection and request the veteran scholars to examine them and to give their verdict.