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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CLASSIFICATION OF THE ĀGAMAS
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Bhāsya (p. 94), we come across the following line :
"उपाङ्गानि 'राजप्रसेनकीयौपपातिकादीनि"
This very line occurs in Haribhadra Sūri's com. (p. 760) on Tattvārtha (I, 21) and its Bhāsya.
From this it follows that these two commentators look upon the 2nd and 1st Uvangas as Upāngas and include some more works in the same group; but unfortunately we do not know as to what they are. One more point worth noting in this connection is that the order of the 1st two Uvangas as mentioned by both of these commentators of Tattvartha, differs from that noted before. Can we therefore infer that here the order is immaterial and enumeration, the main object? Or is it that in the time of these commentators, Rajaprasenakiya was looked upon as the 1st Uvanga and Aupapātika as the 2nd, and subsequently the order was reversed ? I am not in a position to give a final answer to these questions at present. Vide p. 126, fn. 2. So leaving them aside I may note that at least by the time the Bhāsya on Tattvārtha was composed, a certain class of works was no doubt designated as Upanga, and the same was the case at least by the time when Nirayāvalīsuyakkhandha was composed.
Before I deal with the 3rd group viz. Cheyasutta, I think, I should recapitulate the results arrived at, during this investigation about the names and the number of the Uvangas. They are :
(1)
There is no mention of the group Uvanga in any of the Angas.
1. This name Rājaprasenakīya is rather unique, and the same is the case with the name
Rajaprasenajit occurring in Devendranarakendraprakarana composed by Municandra Sūri, the guru of Vädin Deva Sūri; for, usually, in Samskrt we come across the name Rajapraśniya. It may however be added that the Samskrt equivalent of Rāyapasenaiya,
a name occurring in some of the Mss. of Nandī may be Rājaprasenakiya. 2. Hemacandra considers Aupapātika as the 1st. This is what can be inferred from his
com. (p. 104) on Abhidhānacintāmaņi (II, 159). There he says :
"इत्येकादश प्रवचनपुरुषस्य अङ्गानीवाङ्गानि सहोपाङ्गै औपपातिकादिभिर्वर्तन्ते सोपाङ्गानि" 3. "तस्य महाविषयत्वात् तांस्ताननधिकृत्य प्रकरणसमाप्त्यपेक्षमङ्गोपाङ्गनानात्वम्.. अन्यथा ह्यनिबद्धमङ्गोपाङ्गशः
HYGARUTOT JE CHRİ PIC" Bhāsya (p. 94) on Tattvārtha. 4. "उवंगाणं भंते ! समणेणं, जाव संपत्तेणं के अटे पन्नत्ते? ॥३॥ एवं खलु जंबू ! समणेणं एवं उवंगाणं पंच वग्गा
पन्नत्ता, तं जहा-निरयावलियाओ १ कप्पवडिसियाओ २ पुफियाओ ३ पुष्फलियाओ ४ वण्हिदसाओ ५" (pp 3-4) Did all these 5 vaggas form one text originally, and were they separately counted subsequently?