History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

SR No.: 006541
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2010
Total Pages: 322
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & History
File Size: 17 MB

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THE EXTINCT ĀGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
In the Cunni (pp. 57-58) on Nandī, in Malayagiri Sūri's com. on it and in Pavayanasāruddhāra (dāra 92), the number of the padas each Puvva consists of, is given; but some times, they differ, e. g. in the case of the 1st, 7th, 8th and 10th Puvvas.
Incidentally it may be noted that as stated in Kalpakiranāvali (p. 9a) composed by Dharamasāgara Gani in V. S. 1626 the quantity of ink required for writing the 1st Puvva equals the volume of one elephant, that for the 2nd, that of 2, for the 3rd, that of 4 and so on in the geometrical progression so that for the 14th it equals that of 213 i. e. 8192 elephants.
2Quotations from the Puvvas - Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri in his com. on Visesāvassayabhāsa has at times given the älāvagas etc., from the Puvvas. 3 He believes that v. 117 of this Visesā° which runs as under belongs to Puvvagaya :
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मोत्तूणं दव्वसुयं अक्खरलंभो य सेसेसु ॥११७॥" He ends the explanations of this verse with the words "sfa qoramugarf:"4
That this v. 117 belongs to a Puvva is corroborated by the words "Taufanfact ti galimfer" occurring in Devendra Sūri's vivrti on Kammavivāga (v. 4). These words are followed by the 117th verse noted above.
Maladhārin Hemacandra while commenting on v. 128 (“greeso)" identifies it as a gāthā from a Puvva. While commenting on v. 2335 of Visesāo he observes on p. 946 :
"Chat-14% qoftare poeir Hal1147: (? )HTTg 29 “gt Ha! जीवपएसे जीवे त्ति वत्तव्वं सिया ? | नो इणढे समढे । एवं दो, तिन्नि, जाव दस, संखेज्जा, असंखेजा भंते ! जीवपएसा जीव त्ति वत्तव्वं सिया ? । नो इणढे समढे, एगपएसूणे वि णं जीवे नो जीवे त्ति वत्तव्वं सिया । से केणं अटेणं ? । जम्हा णं कसिणे पडिपुन्ने लोगागासपएसतुल्ले जीवे त्ति वत्तव्वं सिया,
foi ursor sa i''S 1 In all the number of elephants comes to 16383. Vide Kalpakiraņāvali (p. 9a). 2 For quotation from the Pahudas see pp. 100-101. 3 It seems in doing so, he has probably followed Kotyācārya's com. on Visesā. ° 4 In Kotyācārya's com. (p. 53) we have : "fa gerora etateret." 5 Cf. Kotyācārya's com. (p. 687) on Visesão and Vādivetāla śānti Süri's com.
(p. 157a) on Uttarajjhayana (III) and its Nijjutti (v. 168).