Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c25.2

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The *Kalpasūtra* is supposed to have been composed in its original form by Bhadrabāhu. In its present form it is a compilation made in 980¹ years after the passing away of Mahāvīra. i.e. A.D. 454 during the reign of Dhruvasena, king of Gujarat. Yaśovijaya, Devicandra, Jñānavimala, and Samayasundara wrote commentaries on this text. All of them were most probably written between fifteenth and seventeenth centuries according to Dr. Stevenson. Jacobi in the introduction to his edition of the *Kalpasūtra* says, that the oldest commentary that he has used is the *Pañjikā* written by Jina Prabhamuni. There are various printed editions of this text. This text has been translated by H. Jacobi in S.B.E., Vol. XXII and by Dr. J. Stevenson in 1848. There is an edition of this work by Hermann Jacobi with an introduction, notes and a Prākṛt-Sanskrit Glossary published in 1879.