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3, and the Anuyogadwarashastra four Cheda Shastra-Vyavaharashastra 1, Brihatkalpashastra 2, Dasashrutaskandha Shastra 3, Nishit Shastra 4, and the 31st and 32nd Aavashyak Shastra. Thus, 32 Agamas are considered in the present time. But this designation seems to be modern. The reason is that in the Nandi Siddhanta, all the Siddhanta are described in four ways as follows. For example, Angashastra, Utkalikashastra, Kalikashastra and Aavashyakashastra. The Upangasastra and the four original four Cheda Shastra are all included in the Kalik and Utkalik Shastra. See-Nandi Siddhanta-Shrutajnanavishaya.
And in the Aupapatik etc. Shastra, there is no mention anywhere that this is Upangasastra. For example, in the beginning of the Angashastra after the fifth Anga, this passage comes that, Bhagwan Jambuswami Ji says- "O Bhagwan! I have heard the meaning of the sixth Angashastra, but what meaning has Shri Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami described for the seventh Angashastra?" etc. But this style is not seen in the Upangasastra, and the Shastrakar has not called them Upanga. But only in the beginning of the Nirayavalika Sutra, this Sutra is definitely present. And the passage:
"Taenaṁ se Bhagavaṁ Jambū jātasaddhe jāva pajjuvāsamaṇe evaṁ vayāsī-uvagaṇāṁ bhanta! Samaṇeṇaṁ jāva sampattenaṁ ke aṭṭe paṇṇatte? Evaṁ khalu Jambū! Samaṇeṇaṁ Bhagavaya jāva sampattenaṁ, evaṁ uvagaṇāṁ pañcavaggā paṇṇattā. Taṁ jaha-nirayāvaliyāo 1 kappavaḍiṁsiyāo 2 pufiyāo 3 pupphaculliyāo 4 vaṇhidasaō 5"-etc.
After this passage, the study of some of the classes has been described. It cannot be clear from this passage which five classes of Upangas are the Upangas of which Angashastra. Although the Purvacharyas have imagined Anga and Upanga and added Upanga with Anga, but this subject is worth considering. The designation Kalik and Utkalik seems to be very ancient because it is in the Stanangadi Shastra. But the designation Upangadi is also acceptable. Or this subject is worth considering for scholars. Acharya Hemchandra Ji, in his own made 'Abhidhanchintamani' named Kosha, while mentioning the name of Angashastra, has fulfilled the subject by saying only 'Angashastra with Upanga'. But just as