History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

SR No.: 001741
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 266
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Literature
File Size: 18 MB

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A HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
in Viāhapannatti (V, &, 1) where it is said : "424144 u vjà vufa aufa fla तं तं भावं परिणमति ? गोयमा । सिय एयति, वेयति जाव परिणमति, सिय णो एयति जाव णो aftupefa". Another passage occurring in this Anga (s. 318) may be also noted: " al lui fa 37alut at."
Saptabhangi - We notice the three fundamental Bhangas which lead to seven on further investigation, in the following lines of the 5th Anga :
__ "गोयमा ! अप्पणो आदिढे आया, परस्स आदिट्टे नो आया, तदुभयस्स आदिढे अवत्तव्वं आताति a un alfa 21"
Parallels in non-Jaina Literature* - Just as the word tripitaka and its Pāli equivalent occur in the Bauddha literature so do the word ganipitaka and its Prākṣta equivalent tipitaka ganipidaga in the Jaina literature. This ganipidaga is twelve-fold inasmuch as it consists of 12 Angas. Out of them Āyāra may be compared with the Vinayapitaka of the Bauddhas, and Thāna and Samavāya, with their Anguttaranikāya. Further, the stories pertaining to the fructification of merit and demerit which are embodied in Vivägasuya may be compared with Avadānašataka and Karmaśataka of the Bauddhas. Similarly the Paësi-Kesi dialogue occurring in Rāyapaseniya has a parallel in the Pāyāsisutta of the Dighanikāya Nr. 23. In this connection Prof. Winternitz says in The Jainas in the His. of Ind. Lit. (p. 147) :
"The original may in this case be the Jaina dialogue, but it is also possible that both have to be derived from an older Itihāsa-samvāda, forming part of the ancient ascetic literature."2
All the Cheyasuttas such as Nistha etc., have almost the same contents as we meet with under the name of vinaya in the Bauddha literature. Just as Pajjosanākappa deals with the life of Lord Mahāvīra, so does Lalitavistara, a Bauddha work so far as the life of Lord Buddha is concerned. The famous saying of King Janaka of Mithilā (after he had adopted asceticism) viz. 'How boundless is my wealth as I possess nothing ! When Mithilā is on fire, nothing
1. Cf. "37791 go f uit, FHI 3770" —Anga V 4 2. Prof. Winternitz in The Jainas in the His. of Ind. Lit. (p. 145, fn.) says :
"If I am not mistaken, e. Leumann (2. D. M. G. 48, 1894, p. 65 ff.) was the first to speak of a 'Parivrājaka Literature', though not quite in the same sense as I use the term 'Ascetic Literature'. See my lecture on 'Ascetic Literature of Ancient India' in Some
problems of Indian Literature (Calcutta University, Press, 1925), p. 21 ff.” * See page 214 of addition. $ See page 214 of addition.