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
8th chapter of Dasāsuyakkhandha and other Chedasūtra6 viz. Vavahāra and Kappa', and that he is said to be an author of Pindanijjutti and Ohanijjutti as well.
The ten Nijjuttis here referred to, are versified commentaries in Prākrta on the following 10 works :
(1) Āvassaya, (2) Dasaveyāliya, (3) Uttarajjhayaņa, (4) Āyāra, (5) Sūyagada, (6) Dasāsuyakkhandha, (7) Kappa, (8) Vavahāra, (9) Sūriyapannatti and (10) Isibhāsiya.
Out of these ten works, we had an occasion to mention (1), (2), (4) and (5) up till now. As regards (3), it appears that it is not a work of one single author, though Prof. Banarasidas in his Ardhamāgadhi Reader (P. 45) attributes its authorship to Bhadrabāhusvāmin. Works (6), (7) and (8) come under the class of works known as Chedasūtras, and they are said to be the compositions of Bhadrabāhusvāmin. Works (9) and (10) are rather anonymous, and out of them, the last is said to be a work consisting of 45 ajjhayanas narrated by 45 Pratyekabuddhas, one by each of them.2
Before proceeding further, I may mention that all these 10 works which are commented upon by Bhadrabāhusvämin, a śrutakevalin, deserve to be included in the list of Jaina scriptures (and I accordingly do so), though a work like Sūriyapannatti is anonymous. For, its author, whoever he was, must have been an outstanding personality, and this work of his must have been of a very high order as not only to attract the attention of a Śrutakevalin but to lead him to comment upon it.
To this list of the Jaina scriptures so far enumerated, may be added works composed by Sthūlabhadra. But we do not know whether he at all
1. Cf. The following verse of Pañcakappabhāsa composed by Sanghadāsa
Ksamāśramana :"वंदामि भद्दबाहं पाईणं चरिमसयलसुयणाणि । सुत्तत्थकारगमिसिं दसाण कप्पे य ववहारे ।।" For this verse see Pt. II pp. 259 and 67 of Descriptive Catalogue of Jaina Manuscripts (vol. XVII) of Des. Cat. of the Govt. Collections of Mss. deposited at Bhandarkar 0.
Research Institute), and Peterson, Report IV, p-100. 2. Cf. the following lines occurring in Yaśodeva Sūri's com. (p. 67“) on Pakkhiyasutta :
"इसिभासियाई ति इह ऋषयः प्रत्येकबुद्धसाधवस्ते चात्र नेमिनाथतीर्थवर्तिनो नारदादयो विंशतिः, पार्श्वनाथतीर्थवर्तिनः पञ्चदश, वर्द्धमानस्वामितीर्थवर्तिनो दश ग्राह्याः, तैर्भाषितानि पञ्चचत्वारिंशत्सङ्घान्यध्ययनानि श्रवणाद्यधिकार (भ)वन्नि ऋषिभाषितानि ।"