Nandisutt and Anuogaddaraim

SR No.: 001062
Original Sutra Author: Devvachak, Aryarakshit
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 764
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Ethics, agam_nandisutra, & agam_anuyogdwar
File Size: 14 MB

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which is very essential for an entrance into and understanding of the science of Mathematics is treated of at different places differently.80
The practice of offering synonyms for a term provides us with ample material necessary for the compilation of lexicons.81
It contains an interesting account of the laukika ( worldly') and alaukika (transcendental) literature. In the beginning of the Anuyogadvāra we find the classification of the Jaina Agamas.82 In the list of laukika works there occur proper names like Bhārata, Rāmāyaṇa, etc. which denote particular works and also class-names like buddhavacana, kāpila, lokāyata, purāņa, vyákarana, nataka, etc. which denote different sciences or systems of philosophy. Optionally it includes all the 72 sciences and the Vedas with their auxiliary sciences like nirukta and others in the śruta--the laukika śruta,83 and all the twelve Angas in the lokottara śruta.84 The list of such works the names of which are after the literary structure or composition contains names of works well known in those days, viz. Tarangavati, Malayavati, Atmānuśāsti and Bindu.85 The concerned names of the concerned prakaranas of the Acāranga, the Uttaradhyayana, the Daśavaikälika, the SūtrakȚt are mentioned to illustrate the practice of naming a prakarana after the first word occurring therein.86
We gather from the Anuyogadvāra some information about the peoples of the different parts of the country with whom our author was probably in close contact. The list of names which were given to the peoples after the province of their residence contains the following-magahae, malavae, soratthae, marahatthae, konkanae, kosalae.87 From this we can infer that the peoples from Magadha, Mälava, Saurastra, Maharastra, Koňkana and Kosala visited the place where our authar lived and hence he was acquainted with them.
The cultural data this work supplies us with are very useful to the historians. While discussing ten types of names88 applied to Jīva (Living Substance) as well as to A-jiva (Non-living Substance) it acquaints us with factors which determine the name given to a child by its parents. It alludes to the practice of naming it after the name of the constellation of stars under which it is born. It enumerates names that can be given to a child born under the krttika constella
80. Ibid., Sū. 93-204, 316, 326, 49781. Ibid., Sū. 29, 51, 72, 208 82. Ibid., Sū. 383. Ibid., Sū. 49 84. Ibid., Sū. 50 85. Ibid., Sü. 308 86. Ibid., Sü, 266 87. Ibid., Su. 277 88. Ibid., Sū. 209