Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

SR No.: 001064
Original Sutra Author: Shyamacharya
Author: Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1971
Total Pages: 934
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_pragyapana
File Size: 16 MB

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when. But the term Culikā itself suggests that it is a later addition. The similar thing has happened even in case of Agamas like Daśavaikālika.
Prajñāpanāsūtra is written in the style of original Sutra while Satkhanḍagama employs commentarial or expository style in addition to it. In the Satkhandagama many a time the discussion is conducted through 'entrances' to exposition; this suggests commentarial style. That is to say, after having suggested the entrances to exposition by the words 'anioagddārāni, the exposition is conducted through all those 'entrances' one by one.3 Moreover, the terms like kṛti, vedanā, karma are explained through the method of Nikṣepas, viz. nāma, sthāpanā, dravya and bhāva. In doing so it has clearly followed the style of exposition found in the Niryukti of Jaina Agamas.4 The employment of terms like 'anugama', 'samtaparuvana ', niddesa", vihasă '8 (vibhāṣā) also points to its commentarial style. The various lists of anuyogadvaras ('points of investigation' or 'entrances to exposition') and the treatment of the subject through their application that we find in the first chapter of Tattvōrthasutra were not still crystallised in Prajñāpana. It is so because Prajñāpanā does never discuss the subject through anuyogadvaras, first giving the list of them. But in Satkhandagama eight anuyogadvāras are first enumerated1o and then according to them the discussion of the subject proceeds on. Of course, in Prajñāpana a certain stage necessary for the establishment of the lists of anuyogadvāras as also for the treatment of the subject according to them is already reached. On its basis, later on, the lists of anuyogadvaras came to be crystallised and the subjects were treated of according to them. Tattvärthasutra (I. 8) enumerates eight anuyogadvaras, viz. sat, sankhya etc. Such an enumeration of anuyogadvaras is not found in Prajñāpanā. But it is possible to construct a list of anuyogadvaras which are scattered in the different Padas of Prajñāpanā. And such a constructed list of anuyogadvāras has been utilised in Satkhaṇḍagama. This fact
3. Satkhandagama Book I Su. 5; Book IX Su. 45; Book X. Su. 1; Book XI Su. 1 & 165: Book XII Su. 1; Book XIII Sü. 2 etc..
4. The employment of this method is noticed in Ṣatkhandagama from Book IX Su. 45 to Book XIV.
5. Ibid, Book I Su. 7; Book III Su. 1 etc.
6. Ibid, Book 1 Su. 7; Book IX Su. 71.
7. Ibid, Book I Su. 8; Book III Su. I etc.
8. Ibid, Book VI Su. 2 (p. 4), Book VI Su. 1 (p. 145); Book XIV Su. 1.
9. Let us note that in Buddhism the school that attaches utmost importance to Vibhāṣā is known as Vaibhaşika school.
10. Saṭkhandagama, Book I, su. 7, p. 155.