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
95 (iii) Some of the Śvetāmbaras of the present days state that the following 3 works written in Samskrta have been extracted from Puvvagaya :
(1) Namo’rhat, (2) Namo'stu Vardhamānāya and (3) Viśālalocana.
While trying to verify this statement I find that in Hiraprasna also called Praśnottrasamuccaya (prakāśa III, p. 28b) it is stated that Namo'rhat is extracted from a Puvva.
It may be however noted that the quotations from the Puvvas given on pp. 91-92 suggest that the Puvvas were composed in Prākrta, in case these are reproductions ad verbatim.
The study of the Puvvas-A Caturdaśapūrvadhara can go through all the 14 Puvvas, both in word and meaning in a muhurta', in case he has practised 'mahāpāna? dhyāna'. This is what is said in Parisistaparvan (IX, 62)3. Padmamandira Gani, however, in his com. (p. 183b)4 on Dharmaghosa Sūri's Rsimandalaprakarana (v. 181) observes that in virtue of this dhyāna having been practised, a Caturdaśapūrvadhara can in an antarmuhurtas have the gunana of all the Puvvas from the beginning to the end and in the reverse order to boot.
Vatthus-The 14 Puvvas have sections known as Vatthus. Their numbers are respectively 10, 14, 8, 18, 12, 2, 16, 30, 20, 15, 12, 13, 30 and 25 (vide Nandi s. 57). In all they come to 225. Nowhere I have come across the names of all these Vatthus. Only the names of the first five vathus of the 2nd Puvva are mentioned as Puvvanta, Avaranta, Dhuva,
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This is the 30th part of a day, and practically it equals 48 minutes. This is alluded to in the following verse of Sirivālakahā : "महपाणज्झायदुवालसंगसुत्तत्थतदुभयरहस्सो । सज्झायतप्परप्पा एसप्पा चेव उवज्झाओ ॥ १३३० ॥" "H81410t a pouat are affem i tradycritor quent generazi geda: 11€? 11" "qut af HEIGU Tailor Jura fonet T its 10 mi amta: 11 800 11" This means a period which ranges from 9 samayas to a muhurta less by one samaya, as can be seen from the following verse of Lokaprakāśa (III):
“समयेभ्यो नवभ्य: स्यात् प्रभृत्यन्तर्मुहर्तकम् । समयोनमूहर्तान्तमसङ्ख्यातविधं यतः ॥ ३४ ॥ "HIGH 378(s)kta are gà 37 pret for TH TH T H rouarell बारस इक्कारसमे बारसमे तेरसेव वत्थूणि । तीस पुण तेरसमे चोद्दसमे पण्णवीसाओ ।।"
From this it follows that the 10th Puvva is here named as Anuppavāya instead of Vijjāņuppavāya.
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