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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OUR CRITICAL METHOD OF EDITING THE JAINA AGAMAS 91
which we had while reading the Anuyogadvārasūtra and Cūrni thereon, the Prajñāpanopangasūtra and Malayagirīyā Vștti, etc. edited by him.
When the commentaries are corrupt it becomes very difficult to correct the text of the sutra. So, before preparing the critical edition of the Agamas it is absolutely necessary to have the critical edition of the commentaries thereon. We have adopted this method in critically editing the texts of the Nandisutra, Anuyogadvārasūtra and Pannavaņāsūtra. And we are confident that this same method will continue in preparation of the critical edition of the other Agamas too.
(iii) Utilization of the Quotations from the Āgamas
The Jaina commentators of olden times have, at various places, quoted from the Āgamas and also from the commentaries thereon. In the preparation of the critical edition of the Nandi and the Anuyogadvāra we have utilised all the quotations we have come across. And we shall do the same in preparing the critical editions of the other Āgamas too. Though the readings accepted by the commentators like the author of the Cürņi, Haribhadrasūri and others are not found in the extant mss., these quotations supply us with omissions, additions, similarity, dissimilarity, varied interpretations, difference of opinion, etc. pertaining to those old readings of the sūtra. To elucidate this point we give below some places from the present edition of the Nandi and the Anuyogadvarasütra-p. 16 n. 6, 7, 11; p. 17 n. 1-5; p. 19 n. 11; p. 24 n. 13, 16; p. 25 n. 11-12; p. 29 n. 8; p. 31 n. 1-2, 4; p. 32 n. 7; p. 33 n. 4; p. 34 n. 6, 14; p. 36 n. 2, 11; p. 37 n. 5, 6, 9 etc.; p. 39 n. 4; p. 40 n. 1; p. 43 n. 10, 12; p. 159 n. 4; p. 160 n. 1.
At all the above mentioned places we have compared the readings with the quotations from the Nandi-Anuyogadvara occurring in the Nandisūtra, the Anuyogadvārasūtra, the Samavāyāngasūtra, the Bhagavatīsūtra, the Pannavaņāsūtra, the Viśeșāvaśyakamahābhāsya and its commentaries, the Malayagiriyā Tikā on the Avaśyakasūtra, the Dvädaśāranayacakra and its Vștti, etc.
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(iv) Comparison with the Sūtra-readings found
in the other Ägamas The Jaina sthaviras, who are the authors of the Sūtra, Cūrni, Țikā, etc., extensively employ the method of incorporating in their own composition the old sūtra-passages or commentary-passages relating to the subject in hand. They have not considered it to be a defect of composition. On this account in the Jaina Āgamas and the commentaries thereon we come across almost similar or completely identical