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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is 453. Though it is written there that 376 V. N. is the year of birth, elsewhere it is considered to be the year of death. Similarly, 453 V. N. too seems most probably the year of death (of second Kalaka). Thus there is no long gap between the dates of the two Kalakas. If we take 376 V. N. to be the year of birth (of the first Kälaka) even then there will be a gap of only 77 years between the dates of two Kalakas. These two Kālakas may or may not be identical but it is certain that Prajñāpanā is a work of that Kalaka who flourished before the commencement of Vikrama Era.
Some gathas of Prajñāpanä occur even in Sutrakṛtänga, Uttaradhyayana, Avaśyakasutra-niryukti and Acaranganiryukti. A comparison of all these gathas occurring in the abovementioned different works being necessary we give it below.
Prajnapana
Sū. 24 gă. 8
Sū. 24 gā. 9
Su. 24 gā. 10 Sū. 24 gă. 11
Sūtrakṛtānga
2.3.19 gă. 1 2.3.19 gă. 2 2.3.19 gă. 3 2.2.19 gā. 5
Uttar. Adhya. 36
gā. 74
gå. 75
gā. 76
gā. 77
Acaranga-niryukti (gā. 72, 76) and Uttaradhyayanasutra (gā. 73) clearly state that there are 36 divisions. But in Uttaradhyayana occur 40 divisions whereas in Acaranganiryukti occur 36 divisions. And in Sutrakṛtānga and Prajñāpană occur 40 divisions. This proves that originally there were 36 divisions19 and only later on in those concerned gathās four more divisions were added to the 36. Hence we should consider the concerned gathas occurring in Prajñāpana to be a quotation from some other work. What is more, we should believe that they have undergone some correction. These very gāthās occur in Sutrakṛtāngasútra. And we can legitimately opine that the oldest form of these gäāthās is found in Acaranganiryukti. It is quite possible that Sutrakṛtānga too quotes these gathās from some other work.20 Even if we consider Ac. Bhadrabahu, senior or junior, to be the author of Niryuktis, it is well nigh impossible that all the gathas of Niryuktis are composed by him. It would be proper to believe that he included in the
Acara. Níryukti
gā. 73
gā. 74
gā. 75
gā. 76
19. Mülācāra (5.8-12) too enumerates 36 divisions only. And the concerned. gäthas found in the work are almost the same with some different readings.
20. These gathās seem to be borrowed in Sutrakṛtānga, This is so because therein they occur after the remark imão gãhão anugam tavvão'. Moreover, therein they are followed by a statement 'eyão eesu bhaniyavvão gãhão jāva surakamtattäe viuṭṭamti. Compare this statement with the one occurring in Prajñāpanāsutra su. 55. The Prajñāpanā statement is 'eesi nam imão gãhão anugaṁtavvão.'