On a Verse Cited by Agastyasimha

In the recently published Agastyasımha's Prakrit commentary (called Carni²) on the Dasakhyasutta", a "senior" text of the Jafna agama, we meet w'h many citations, some of them in Sanskrit Most of them have been ntified by Manf Shri Punyavijaya, the able editor of this import ant work. Amongst the few unidentified citations, there is, on

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त्रिपाठी अगस्त्यसिंह की दशवैकालिकसूत्र पर प्राकृत चूर्णि में अनिर्दिष्ट रूप से उद्धृत एक संस्कृत पद्य की पहचान करते हैं। उसका प्रतीक उन्हें जिनदास की निशीथविशेषचूर्णि में मिलता है और पूरा श्लोक — 'काम जानामि ते मूलम्' — समीक्षित महाभारत के शान्तिपर्व 171.25 में; वे पाठभेद भी दर्ज करते हैं। Tripathi identifies a Sanskrit verse quoted without attribution in Agastyasimha's Prakrit curni on the Dasavaikalikasutra. He finds its pratika in Jinadasa's Nisitha-visesacurni and the full stanza, kama janami te mulam, at Santiparvan 171.25 of the critical Mahabharata, and records the variant readings.

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