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 fisherman from generating fish. In this very narrative (v. 128) we come across a line where it is said that lions were generated.
A photo-copy as well as the original Ms. of a work known as Jonipāhuda can be had at the Bhandarkar O. R. Institute; but as this work is in a fragmentary condition and even several folios are not properly arranged, it is difficult to make out a head or tail out of it. Even then
e lines are given by me in DCGCM (Vol. XVII, pt. I, pp. 383384). From this we learn that this work is composed by Panhapravana Muni, and it is copied in Samvat 1582. In another place, we notice the name Praśnaśravana mahāmuni. Some take this work to be the same as Jonipāhuda, but I have grave doubts about it. See my "Preface” (p. xxiv) to D C G CM (Vol. XVII, pt. III). In the introduction (p. 6) to Nirvanakalikā it is said : "Dharasena composed the Yoni-prābhrta about 135 A. D.”1
Dukkhamāpāhuda and Nadayavihipāhuda-It seems that we have no description available of any one of these Pāhudas. All the same it may be inferred that the latter must be dealing with dramas and their staging.
Nimittapāhuda-This is defined in Kahāvali as under : "जत्थ उण केवलियाजोइससयणाइनिमित्तं सुत्तिज्जइ तं निमित्तपाहुडं।"
From this it follows that it deals with nimittas including astrology (jyotis) and the science of dreams. It may be noted that nimitta includes jyotis; if not, it would have been separately mentioned in Nistha etc., where the Jaina clergies are forbidden to get alms by yogacūrņa vidyā and nimittaprayoga.
Nimitta is defined in Visesā° (v. 2163) as under : “लक्खिज्जई सुभासुभमणेण तो लक्खणं निमित्तं ति । भोमाइ तदट्ठविहं तिकालविसयं जिणाभिहियं ॥"
That nimittajñāna is looked upon as valid can be seen from the following verse occurring in Sūyagada (I, 12, 9):
“संवच्छरं सुविणं लक्खणं च निमित्तदेहं च उप्पाइयं च । अढंगमेयं बहवे अहित्ता लोगंसि जाणंति 3707174 II"
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Several articles on Jonipähuda are published in "Anekānta" (Vol. II). This pahuda was not accessible to Harisena when he composed Jagatsundariyogamālādhikāra (ms. No. 266a/ A. 1882-83 deposited at B. O. R. I.) on the basis of several medicinal treatises.