The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.8

c7.s2.8

3. *Jīvābhigama*. In the introduction and at the end the work calls itself *Jīvājīvābhigama*; i.e. “Classification of Animate and Inanimate Objects”, though it treats no more than the first category. The originators are said to have been the *therā bhagavanto* who obediently complied with what the Lord had meant and taught. This is not in harmony with the conventional form of question and reply as mostly found in the text. It has 2 times 9 *paḍivatti* “meanings” (8a, 463a) where in a non-polemic manner it is being said how some (*ege*) classify the beings from two-up to tenfold. In the Colophon there is no reference made to *paḍivatti*. As to major and minor interpolations see below.