An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c8.s3.10
An Outline of the Religious Literature of India c8.s3.10
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c8.s3.10
§ 135. In a sixteenth-century Digambara work, the Tattvārthasāradīpikā of Sakalakīrti,² it is stated that from very early times the Digambaras had a large Canon, handed down orally, but that it was gradually forgotten, until in the second century A. D. it had all been lost. A list of the books is given,³ divided into three groups, Aṅgas, Pūrvas, and Aṅgabāhyas. A large proportion of the names correspond with books of the Śvetāmbara list, but there are differences.