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
XXII Pamayappamāya-This ajjhayana deals with five types1 of pramäda and the cessation from them (i. e. apramāda).
XXIII Porisimandala-This work mentions the porisis pertaining to the different mandalas.
XXIV Mandalapavesa-This work throws light as to how the sun and the moon go from one mandala to another.
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XXV Vijjacaraṇavinicchaya-This work deals with the nature and fructification of knowledge and character.
XXVI Jhāṇavibhatti-This work deals with the classifications of dhyana (meditation).
XXVII Ãyavisohi-This work points out repentence etc. as the ways of purifying a defiled soul.
XXVIII Viyarāgasuya-This work explains the nature of the passionate and the dispassionate.
XXIX Samlehaṇāsuya-This
is a work which deals with dravya-saṁlekhanā and bhāva-samlekhanā. The former consists in reducing the necessities of life, and the latter, in controlling passions.
XXX Vihārakappa-This work supplies a code governing the lives of the Sthavira-kalpins and the Jina-kalpins.
XXXI Caraṇavihi-This work has carana (conduct of a clergy) as its subject-matter. This carana includes the five great vows etc.
XXXII Nirayavisohi-As stated on p. 28 some look upon this work as ukkaliya suya. But no additional information can be had about it except that it is extinct.
XXXIII Maraṇavisohi-In Acaradinakara (pt. II, p. 303b) we have a list of works belonging to the kaliya suya and ukkaliya suya, and therein this work is noted as ukkaliya.
XXXIV Ayavibhatti-This work is noted as ukkäliya on p. 28. No further particulars are available except that it is extinct.
XXXV Uṭṭhāṇapariyāvaṇiya2-This was one of the text-books for a Sādhu
1 Cf. - "मज्जं विसय कसाया निद्दा विगहा य पञ्चमी भणिया । एए पंच पमाया जीवं पाइन्ति संसारे || " This verse is quoted by Yaśodeva Suri in his com. (p. 64) on Pakkhiyasutta. The word uṭṭhāṇapariyavaniya occurs in Viahapannatti (XV; s. 540); but there it is not used to denote this or any other work.
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