Jambudwip Part 03

SR No.: 005569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vardhaman Jain Pedhi
Publisher: Vardhaman Jain Pedhi
Total Pages: 250
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 6 MB

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the 24th and the last Tirthankara were the productos the same place (ford-maker), is said to have prea- and time. This problem is however ched his doctrines of relgion and out of the purview of this work and it philosophy in Arddha-Magadhi is hoped the linguists will unravel (Half Magadhi, meaning the language this mystery in an independent being spoken in half the state of manner (64). Magadha or the language equipped (b) AUTHORSHIPS AND DATE with half the characteristics of the According to Jaina tradition, language of Magadha) (67) language Gautama Indrabhuti and Sudharman so that the common man could have Swamin became the heads of the followed his holy message (4) Sudh- Nirgrantha order (seet without books) arman Swamin is also said to have in successon after the passing away of composed all the sutragranthas (Jaina lord Mahavira, the 24th and the last canonical works) in Arddha Magadhi Tirthankar (ford-maker) of the Jaina Winternitz, however, opines that sect. Sudharman Swamin had transthere is also a difference of language mitted the sacred instructions of the of prose and that of verses (63), Agamas (Sacred books of the Jaina Jacobi (5) opines that language of canon) to Jambu Swamin. The sacred Jaina canon is Jaina Maharastri but instructions are addressed to Jambu his views have been refuted by in some Agama's and to Gautama in Pisehel (6). According to Woolner some others, as we find from the (7), both Arddha-Magadhi and present recension of the Jaina canonMaharastri have been used in diffe. ical literature, A council of monks rent portions of the canon. Maom- in Patlipura had met early in the mohan Ghosh (8) ascribes some later third century B. C. and collected form of Sauraseni to the language of the Jaina canonical literature compthe caron, J. C. Sikdar (9) calls it a rising of eleven angas (limbs) and later Arddha-Magadhi. In the light of fourteen purvas (old sctiptures) (10) the foregoing discussion, it' is contem- and thus established a fragmentary plative that the language of Jaina canoni- cannon called 'siddhanta' (system) cal works is some or the other form from which the present canon of the of Arddha-Magadhi. However, it is Svetambaras may be taken to have remarkable to note that the language of been derived (42). Although the the Jaina canon is Ardha-Magadhi and process or the writing had come into that of Buddhist canon is pali inspite vogue abour the 5th of 6th century of the fact that both the canons B, C. in India (41) yet Jaina canoni.