Navsuttani

SR No.: 003556
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 1316
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 29 MB

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by Devarddhigani. The last sūtra of the biography of Mahāvīra and the sthavirāvali bears testimony to it-samaņassa bhagavao mahāvirassa jāva savvadukkhappahiņassa nava vasa sayājm viikkantāja dasamassa ya vāsasayassa ayam asīime samvaccharakāle gacchai. vāyaṇantare puna-ayam tenaue samvaccharakāle gacchai-iti disai. //107||
therassa ņam ajjapūsagirissa kosiyagottassa ajjaphaggumitte there antevāsi goyamasagutte //222||
There is no Cūrņi on the biography of the twenty-three tirthankarasi and the sthavirāvalia. It is clear from this that these two parts were added after the composition of this Cūrņi. Muni Punyavijayaji writes--the authors of the Niryukti and Cūrņi confirm the existence of the list of sthaviras headed by the ganadharas and the samācāri treatise through purimacarimana-kappo (N. G. 62) and the Cūrni thereon. The list of the sthe viras headed by the gañadharas that is found in the Kalpasútra today can never be accepted to have been a part of the Kalpasūtra composed by the caturda śåpūrvadhara Bhagavān Sri Bhadrabāhu svāmi. There fore it will be reasonable to say that the list was prepared when the present Kalpasūtra or the Āgamas were committed to writing by the sthaviras of those times. The most pertinent question that arises in this connection is the whereabout of the origin of the list of sthaviras that is found in the recent manuscripts written in the 16th and 17th centuries I have examined a good many palin-leaf manuscripts from Khambhat, Ahemadabad, Patan, Jaisalmer and other places but could not trace any sthavirāvali connected with the sthaviras of later times. In spite of all this, I am reluctant to admit that those portions are completely baseless. I am therefore inclined to the necessity of further research in the subject.
In the niryukri there is the mention of the jinas, ganadharas and sthavirāvali but it does not follow either from the niryukti or from the cúrni that they constituted a part of the text It is possible that on the basis of their meation in the Niryukti, the jinacaritra, gañadharāvali and sthaviravali were added to the text. The Mahavira-caritra also does not find mention in the niryukti.
The version of 'tha' utilised for constituting the text of the paryuşaņākalpa is an abridged one. There does not occur the description of the tirtharkaras from Nami to Ajita. It is written there instead-athāgre caturvinsati 24 jinănāṁ uttarakālam. The ganadharávali and sthavirāvali in sútras 183 to 222 are missing.
In the palm-leaf manuscript 'ta', the sútras 21 to 35 are wanting. The description of dreams is short. It was expanded later on. Muni Punyavijayaji also considers the description of dreams as a later interpolation. 1 Paryusaņākalpa, sūtra 108-181. 2 Ibid, sūtra 186-222 3 Kalpasūtra, Introduction written by Muni Punyavijayaji, p. 10.