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Number finally, as is generally known, has always played a leading part in the Jaina system. In many a canonical text sections and subsections were freely arranged on a numerical basis. At least one group of texts in the Viy., viz a large part of XVIII, was ordered according to the numerical series 'one, two, three', and at one time this series most probably went on in the immediately following texts since vestiges of the series 'four, five, six’ are evident in XIX 34, XX and a large part of XXV. Details about this and all other ordering principles and methods discussed in this paragraph will be found in the presently following Conspectus of the composition of the Viy., in which I have tried to explain the concatenation of the different texts on the ground of the various connections that link them up one with another.
§ 22. Conspectus of the Composition of the Viy. Abbreviations used in this paragraph: A : annautthiya-text (see § 18), E: episode (see $$ 19-20), ND: nondialogue text (see § 15), R: reference (see $$ 9-14); c.w. = connected with.
I I GOYAMA questions MAHĀVĪRA at RĀYAGIHA: 1 calamāne calie... the so-called irrevocabile factum tenet. 2.7 R on āhāra (an 'initial' theme of HAMG, and several related topics, enframing 3-6. | 3 āhāriya āhārijjamāņa c.w. 1. | 3-6 āhāra (c.w.?) and related topics. | 6 caliya c.w.l. | ?R, see ?; repetition i.e. integration of 3-6. 1 8 HAMG (c.w. 2-7) and Siddhas. 8-11 selfdiscipline and samsāra.
2 1 suffering (c.w. 1 11) and āuya (c.w. 1 10). / 2 = the beginning of the Pannav.-text referred to in 3; āhāra etc.: recurrence to 1 2 seqq. 3 R, see 2 1 4 sunna-kāla etc. c.w. sam'āuya samovavannaga in ?? | 5R on anta-kiriyā, the reverse of rebirth in 4. 1 6-7 = end of the Pannav.-text referred to in 5.
31-2.5.7-8 kankha-mohanijja kamma introduces mohanijja kamma in 4 ?; past, present, future and (uva)ciņai, udirei, veei, nijjarei recur to 1 3-4. | 3 nisanka c.w. sankiya in % | 4 atthitta c.w. atthi utthāne ... vīrie in 5 1 5 see 1-2. I 6 vīriya c.w. 4. | 7-8 see 1-2; both repeat scil. integrate 3-6.
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