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
dravyas, paryāyas and nayas.? There are 22 Suttas as under in this section :
(1) Ujjusuya, (2) Pariņayāparinaya, (3) Bahubhangiä, (4) Vijayacariya, (5) Anantara, (6) Parampara, (7) Māsāņa, (8) Sañjüha, (9) Sambhinna, (10) Ahavvāya, (11) Sovatthiävatta, (12) Nandāvatta, (13) Bahula, (14) Putthāputtha, (15) Viāvatta, (16) Evambhūä, (17) duyāvatta, (18) Vattamānappaya, (19) Samabhirūdha, (20) Savvaöbhadda, (21) Passāsa, and (22) Duppadiggaha. See Nandi (s. 57).2
No information is available regarding the contents of any one of these. We may however note that herein we find names which remind us of the two nayas viz. Evambhūta and Samabhirūdha.
The 22 Suttas are chinnacchedanayika for svasamayikas where as they are acchinnacchedanayikas for the Ājīvagas. Further, they are trikanayikas for the Teräsiyas, while they are catuṣkanayikas for svasamayikas. According to the chinnacchedanaya, all the sūtras of the Āgamas are independent of one another i.e. to say the preceding one has nothing to do with the subsequent one or ones nor has the subsequent one anything to do with the preceding one or ones. Reverse is the case according to the acchinnacchedanaya which believes that the preceding and following sūtras are inter-connected i.e. to say they are not independent of one another.
The four view-points from which 22 Suttas can be seen and which are just mentioned, give us 88 varieties of this section in all.
Puvvagaya - This is fourteen-fold inasmuch as it consists of the following 14 Puvvas :
(1) Uppāya, (2) Aggāniya, (3) Vīriä, (4) Atthinathippavāya, (5) Nāņappavāya, (6) Saccappavāya, (7) Āyappavāya, (8) Kammappavāya, (9) Paccakkhānappavāya, (10) Vijjāņuppavāya,(11) Avanjha, (12) Pāņāü, (13) Kiriāvisāla, and (14) Lokabindusāra.
These names are here given according to the Nandi (s. 57). In Pavayanasāruddhāra (dvāra 92), we come across almost these very names
. "सुत्ताई ति उज्जुसुताइयाई बावीसं सुत्ताई, सव्वदव्वाण सव्वपज्जवाण सव्वणयाण सव्वभंगविकप्पणोवदंसगाणि,
सव्वस्स णय (? पुव्व)गतस्स यऽत्थस्स य सूयग त्ति सूयणतो सुत्ता अणिता जधाभिहाणत्थातो, ते य इदाणि सुत्तत्थतो
alfaguun, 19(9)Graa.coal" - Ibid., (p. 56). 2. In Samavāya (s. 147), the 4th, 7th, 10th and 21st Suttas are named as Vippaccaiya,
Samāna, Ahāccaya, and Paņāma respectively. 3. For a variant see p. 83.