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 CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
_In the com. (p. 960) on v. 2390 of Visesā° he says :
"तत्र च्छिन्नच्छेदनकनयवक्तव्यतायामालापका: समायाता: तद् यथा-"पडुप्पनसमयनेरइया सव्वे वोच्छिजिस्संति, एवं जाव वेमाणिय त्ति, एवं बीयाइसमएसु वि वत्तव्वं'।"
Abhayadeva Sūri in his com. (p. 9a) on Pañcāsaga notes the following verse as occurring in Puvvagaya :
“जारिसओ अइभेओ जह जायइ जह य तत्थ दोसगुणा।
जयणा जह अइयारा भंगो तह भावणा ने या ॥" For, there he says : "न चेयं गाथा न प्रमाणं, पूर्वान्तर्गततयाऽस्या: प्रतिपादनात् ।" Vinayavijaya in Lokaprakāśa (III, v. 803 f.) says on p. 51b: “उक्तं च भाष्यकृता--
“सदसदविसेसणाओ भवहेउजहिच्छिओबलंभाओ।
नाणफलाभावाओ मिच्छादिट्ठिस्स अनाणं ॥'2 - पूर्वान्तर्गतेयं गाथा ।" So this gāthā, too, belongs to some Puvva.
Before we proceed further we may note that in Visesão (v. 2513) its author alludes to 3 Kammappavāya Puvva. The pertinent verse is as under:
“कम्मप्पवायपुव्वे बद्धं पुढे निकाइयं कम्मं ।
जीवपएसेहिं समं सूईकलावोवमाणाओ ॥ २५१३ ॥" Extracts4 from the Puvvas -- According to the Jaina tradition the last Daśapūrvadharas extract portions from the Puvvas necessarily and the Caturdaśapūrvadharas, if a special occasion arises. This is what we learn
1 In Kotyācārya's com. (p. 699) on Visesa° we have a variant पढमसमयउप्पन्ना" for
this. It appears that the entire alāvaga in not given here. 2 This very verse occurs four times in Visesa° as v. 115, 319, 521 and 2844. 3 Similarly Ayappavāyapuvva is mentioned in v. 2335. 4 The Prākrta word for this is nijjuhan, whereas the Samskrta one, niryūhanā. The
former occurs in Visesão (v. 551), and there it means "composition" (racana). The words निजूढं, निजूहगं and निजूहिया are found in verses 12, 14 and 15 of Dasaveyāliyanijjutti. Haribhadra Sūri in his com. on this work says: "FREE पूर्वगतादुद्धृत्य विरचितं" (p.9b) and नि!हकं पूर्वगतोद्धृतार्थविरचनाकर्तारं" (p. 10b). The editor of this work observes : “यूहं उद्धरण इत्यागमिको धातुरिति न्यायसङ्ग्रहः" (p. 12, fm.) “निजूहंति" occurs in Viyāhapannatti (XV, s.1). Abhayadeva Sūri expains it as under: नि!थयन्ति - पूर्वलक्षणश्रुतपर्याययूथानिर्धारयन्ति, उद्धरन्तीत्यर्थः'
In spite of these explanations, it remains to be ascertained whether nijjuhaņā means a re-production ad verbatim or that of an essence embodied in words by the author concerned.