A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.35

c8.35

“Professor A. Weber assigns as the probable cause of the *Driṣṭivāda* being lost, that the development of the Śvetāmbara sect had arrived at a point where the diversity of its tenets from those embodied in that book became too visible to be passed over. Therefore the *Driṣṭivāda*, which contained the Pūrvas, fell into neglect. I cannot concur in Professor Weber’s