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The **Mahapatalpainnayan** is said to be (3) **Shruta-kevali**-said and (4) **Purvadhara**-said. Again, in **Moolachar**, these **Agamic** texts are classified as **Kalik** and **Utkalik**, but the name **Mahapratyakhyan** does not appear anywhere in **Moolachar**. Therefore, it is difficult to say in which category the **Yapaneya** tradition classified it.
Currently, the **Agamas** are divided into **Anga**, **Upanga**, **Cheda**, **Moolasutra**, **Prakirnak**, etc. This division is first found in **Vidhimargprapa** (Jinaprabha - 13th century). Generally, the meaning of **Prakirnak** is a collection of texts on various subjects. **Malayagiri**, the commentator of **Nandosootra**, has written that **Shramanas** used to compose **Prakirnakas** by following the **Shruta** taught by the **Tirthankaras**. According to tradition, it is also believed that each **Shramana** composed one **Prakirnak**. The **Samavayanga Sutra** mentions eighty-four thousand **Prakirnakas** of eighty-four thousand disciples of **Rishabhdev** by saying "**Choraasiin Pannag Sahassaain Pannaatta**". In **Mahavira**'s **Tirtha**, mention of fourteen thousand monks is found. Therefore, the number of **Prakirnakas** in his **Tirtha** is also considered to be fourteen thousand. But today, the number of **Prakirnakas** is considered to be ten.
These ten **Prakirnakas** are as follows:
(1) **Chatuhsharan** (2) **Atur Pratyakhyan** (3) **Sanstarak** (4) **Chandravedhyak** (5) **Gachhachar** (6) **Tandulavaicharik** (7) **Devendrastav** (8) **Ganividya** (9) **Mahapratyakhyan** and (10) **Maran Vidhi**.
In **Painnayasuttaim** edited by Muni Punyavijayji, the names of the ten **Prakirnakas** are as follows:
(1) **Chatuhsharan** (2) **Aturpratyakhyan** (3) **Bhaktaparijna** (4) **Sanstarak** (5) **Tandulavaicharik** (6) **Chandravedhyak** (7) **Devendrastav** (8) **Ganividya** (9) **Mahapratyakhyan** and (10) **Virastav**.
The **Shwetamber Martipujak** sect considers these ten **Prakirnakas** to be in the category of **Agamas**. But if a collection of these texts called by the name **Prakirnak** is made, then the following twenty-two names are obtained:
1. **Vidhimargprapa** - Page 55. 2. **Samavayanga Sutra** - Muni Madhukar - 84th Samavay. 3. **Painnayasuttaai**, Introduction Page 20.