History of Jaina Monachism

SR No.: 001727
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 616
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & History
File Size: 12 MB

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(3) Uttaradhyayana.
(4) Vyavahara.
(5) Nisitha.
HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
(6) Bṛhatkalpa.
(7) Pañcakalpa.
(8) Jitakalpa.
(9) Pañcamangalaśrutaskandha.
(10) Ogha-Niryukti.
and (11) Pinda-Niryukti.
Their Authorship and Date :
Most of these Bhāṣyas are anonymous. Only one among the above eleven, viz. that on the Brhatkalpa is said to have been written by Sanghadāsangani.
The date and the authorship of the rest is still not certain.
Their Importance:
We have already seen that the Niryuktis can be understood with the help of the Bhāṣyas. They not only explain but even supplement the information as given in the Niryuktis.
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(c) The Cunnis:
The Cunnis form the third group of commentaries which are written in a language which is a peculiar mixture of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
KAPADIA gives a list of Cunnis on as many as twenty texts of the Canon. Unfortunately very few of them have been published up till now, and a majority of them are still to be found deposited in various Jaina Bhandars in manuscript form,90
Their Date:
WINTERNITZ seems to ascribe the Bhāṣyas and the Curnis to a later date, when he remarks: "At a later date, these Nijjuttis were extended to form exhaustive commentaries in Präkrit (Bhäṣyas and Cürnis)."
On linguistic basis also we may ascribe the Curnis to a period later than the Bhāṣyas because the former are not written in Prakrit alone like the latter, but are a blending of Prakrit and Sanskrit.
BULL. DCRI.-5
90. Hence all the references from Cunnis are accepted in this thesis as are found in JAIN'S 'Life in Ancient India as depicted in the Jaina Canons.'
91. Op. cit., p. 483.