Agam 02 Ang 02 Sutrakrutang Sutra Suyagado Terapanth

SR No.: 003558
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Nathmalmuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1975
Total Pages: 365
Language: Prakrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, & agam_sutrakritang
File Size: 6 MB

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3. The readers of the fourteen Purwas
Čauddasapuwwain ahijjai (Antagada, tritiya Varga, Navama Adhyayana). This is the statement found regarding Sumukhakumara the disciple of lord Aristanemi.
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Samaiyamaiyain Čauddasapuwwain ahijjai (Antagada, triya Varga, Prathama Adhyayana). This statement is found regarding Aniyasakumāra, the disciple of lord Ariştanemi.
There were three hundred and fifty Caturdaśa-pürw! munis of lord
Pārśwa.
There were three hundred éaturdașa- pürwi munis of lord Mahavira.
The division, Anga-Pravista and Anga-Vahya, have not been given in the Samawayanga and Anuyogadwara. This division first have been made. in the Nandi. The later sthaviras composed the Anga-Vähya. Many angavahyas had been composed before the composition of the Nandi and they were done by the catûrdasa-pürwi or daša-pürwi sthaviras. They were, therefore, taken as solemn as the Agama and two divisions were made of it such as, 1. Anga-pravişta and 2. Anga-Vahya. This division is not found in the Anuyogdwära (sixth century of the Vira-Nirwana). This was first done in the Naudi (tenth century of the Vira-Nirwana)
When the Nandi was composed, the Agama was classified threefold, 1. Parwa, 2. Anga-Pravista and 3. Anga-Vahya. What we have today is only Anga-Pravista and 'Anga-vahya'. The 'purwas' are extinct. Their extinction is a subject of delibration from the historical point of view.
PURWA
According to the Jaina tradition, the Purwa is the Aksaya-Kosa (in exhaustible lexicon) of the Śruta-Jyaña (word knowledge). All do not hold one and the same view about the meaning of the title and their composi tion. The ancient Adaryas hold that as they were composed before the 'Dwadasang they were given the title Purwa" But the modern, scholars
1. Samawayanga, Prakirnaka Samawaya, Sutra. 14.
2. Ibid, Sutra. 12.
3. Samawayanga vritti, Patra 101:
Prathamam Purwam tasya Sarwa pravacnat purwam Kriyamanatwat.