Vipākaśruta is the eleventh of the 12

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āgamas as per Śvetámbara tradition said to be promulgated by

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himself and composed by Ganadhara Sudharmaswami. Vipākaśruta translated as “The Scripture about Ripening” contains stories describing those who experience result about karmas.

Subject matter of the Agama

It contains 10 stories of people who experience the fruit of bad karma and 10 stories of people who experience the fruit of good karma. These people however simply do not just experience their fruit, but it is explained what they did in the past that brought about the fruit that they experience. The text mentions about the

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city of

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ruled by Vesamanadatta and Pusyanandi. It is eleventh of the twelve angas of Svetambara canonical literature. It was written around ninth century AD.

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