Angsuttani Part 01 - Ayaro Suyagao Thanam Samavao

SR No.: 003551
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Nathmalmuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 1108
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 17 MB

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The process of abridgement might have been started by Devar dhigani, but it developed in later period. In the specimens, available at present, the abridged text is not uniformal. A Sūtra has been abridged in one specimen but written in its full version in the other. The commentators have also mentioned it in many places. In the Āupapatik Sūtra, for example, these two passages, "Ayapāyāņi wā Jāwa Aņņayarāin wā” and 'Ayabandhaņaņi wā Jāwa Aņņayarāin wā' are found. They were in the abridged form in the main specimens the Vpittikāra had, but their ful version too, was found in other specimens. The commentator himself has noted it! Many a time, the scribes, according to their own convenience did not write the preceding text again others followed them in the later specimens.
SŪYAGADO
We have adopted the text of the Sūtra Ksita depending not on one specimen only. It has been redeemed after the comparative study, based on the specimens used in the text-redemption, the Cūrņi and the readings of the Vritti, and their critical review as well.
The system to write was little popular in ancient times. Almost all the scriptures were maintained traditionally learnt by heart. This is why the 'Ghosa-Suddhi' (correctness of pronounciation) was much stressed upon. This was a pious duty of the Ācārya to correct the seat of utterence of the disciples. The Daśāśrutaskandha Sūtra says-to become 'Ghosa-Sudhi-Kārka' is one of the virtues of an Ācārya. Special arrangement was there to maintain the text and the meaning in the original form. The Chedasūtras throws full light on it.
Eight kinds of the Jānāćāra have been enumerated. Of them, the three Ācāras are concerned with the said arrangement. They are
1, (a) Aupapatika Vritti, patra 177.
(b) Pustakantare Samagramidam Sutradwayamastyeveti. 2. Dasasrutaskandha, Dasa 4. 3. Nisithabhasya, Gatha 8, part 1, page 6:
Kale vinaye bahumane, uwadhane taha aninhawane,
wanjana-atthatadubhac, atthawidho nanamayaro. 4. Ibid, gatha 17, part 1, page 12:
Sakkayamattabindu Annabhidhanena wa witam Attham, Wanjeti Jena Attham, wanjanamiti bhannate suttam.