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present Volume 13 have been found almost verbatim in the palmleaf Mss. We re-examinel the remaining 6 additions and found that even if we omit them from their allotted positions we have to infer the sepse from the context.
2. Contents of the Mahadhavala manuscript.
The examination of the Mahādhavala palmleaves corroborated our doubts as well as fulAlled our hopes. The My has been found to contain, on the first twenty-seven leaves, a work which has been called Sattakamma-Panchika. A careful exami. nation of the extracts received by us from that work reveals the fact that it is a gloss on the first four out of the eighteon Adhikaras or chapters contained in the supplementary part of Dhavalā which is entirely the composition of Virasena without any strata of old Sutras. The author and the date of this gloss ramain yet obscure.
The rest of the Mahådhavala Ms. contains the Mahabandha, presumably the composition of Acharya Bhutabali himself. This is indicated by the nature of the contents examined in the light of what has been said about the Mahabandha of Bhutabali in the Dhavala and Jayadhavala
3. Subject matter of this volume. The subject matter of this volume is the enumeration of souls in ench of the fourteen stages of spiritual alvancement (Gonisthä:29), and in the different varieties of life and existence called the soul-quests (Mārganāsthānas ). These have been calculated in terms of infinite ( Ananta ), innumerablo (Asamkhyāta ) and numerable (Samkhyāta ), and the standards have been first explained an l defined. Living beings are infinite in number. Of these, the major bulk, which also is infinite in num. ber, consists of beings that are on the lowest rung of the spiritual ladder, the first stage of mental evolution (Mithyātvins ). Of the rest, again, the major part are the absolved beings (Mukta or Siddha ) who are also ininite. The beings in the stagog froin the 2nd to the 5th are innumerable, while those in the last nine stages (6th to 14th ) are in all just three less than nine crores. The author of Dhavala has illustrated these quantities arithmetically by taking the entire living creation to be 16, out of which 13 would fall under the first category, while the remaining 3 would include the Siddhas and all the souls of the other thirteen stages. We have tried to carry this illustration further by splitting up the 3 as well so as to allot 2 to the Siddhas and distribute the remaining 1 among the thirteen stagos according to their quantitative order. (See Intro. page 37).
The soul quantities, according to the subdivisions falling under the Mårganästhānas, have been defined and illustrated in his own way by the author. But we have tried to work the sime out in figures that are consistent with the Gunasthāna distribution, keeping the entire Jivarāshi as 16, the Mithyadrishtis as 13, the Siddhas 2, and the rest comprised within 1. The categories falling under the fourteen Mārgauasthānas are 63, of which 23 are infinite, 32 innumerable, and & numberable. It would be interesting to note that the entire human race is said to be innumerable, but those that are found in the stages from the 2nd to the 14th are just three less than eight hundred and seventy-eight crores. These are spread over all
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| SR No. | 001397 |
| Book Title | Shatkhandagama Pustak 03 |
| Original Sutra Author | Pushpadant, Bhutbali |
| Author | Hiralal Jain, Fulchandra Jain Shastri, Devkinandan, A N Upadhye |
| Publisher | Jain Sahityoddharak Fund Karyalay Amravati |
| Publication Year | 1941 |
| Total Pages | 626 |
| Language | Prakrit, Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, & Karma |
| File Size | 15 MB |