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

Page 140

THE EXTANT ĀGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
123 From the succeeding 4th sūtra of this Anga we learn that in the Gangetic planes the rainy season lasts for four months, the beginning of Mārgaśīrṣa marking the end of it.
The 4th Cūlā which marks the end of the Ayāra, contains 12 verses, the contents of which may remind a Bauddha scholar of Therägāthās.
I shall now mention the following factors whereby the 3rd and the 4th Cūlās cannot be looked upon as brought by Jyesthā from Lord Sīmandhara, though, so suggested in Parisistaparavan (IX, v. 97-100).
(i) Jyestha is a contemporary of Bhadrabāhusvāmin according to the Parisistaparvan, and this very Bhadrabāhusvāmin informs us in his Āyāranijjutti (v. 290) that Bhāvanā, the 3rd Cūlā is extracted from Satthapariņņā, and Vimutti, the 4th Cūlā, from Dhuya.
(ii) The last verse of nijjutti of Dasaveyāliya too, confirms this opinion; for, it speaks of only two Cūlās and not four, and they are supposed to be identical with the ones occurring at the end of Dasaveyāliya.2
(iii) As already noted on p. 49 Haribhadra Sūri mentions a tradition dealing with one Cūlā only.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that in this Ayāra (I, vi, 1) there is a description of the untarnished soul, and that there is a reference to 16 diseases as under:
"गण्डी अदुवा कोट्ठी रायंसि अवमारियं । काणियं झिम्मियं चेव कुणियं खुज्जियं तहा ॥ उयरिं च पास मुत्तिं (? मूयं) च सूणियं च गिलासिणं । वेवयं पीढ-सर्णिं च सिलिवइं मह-मेहिणं ।। सोलस एए रोगा अक्खाया अणुपुव्वसो । अह णं फुसन्ति आयंका फासा य असमञ्जसा ॥" These 16 diseases may be translated as below:
Boils (? scrofula), leprosy, consumption, epilepsy, blindness, stiffness, lameness, hump-backedness, dropsy, dumbness, apoplexy (?), morbid appetite from overdigestion, tremour, crippledness, elephantiasis and diabetes.
It may be noted that these have very little in common with the 16 diseases mentioned in Vivāgasuya (1) as under :
"सासे कासे जरे दाहे कुच्छिसूले भगन्दरे । अरिसा अजीरए दिट्ठीमुद्धसूले अकारए ।
अच्छिवेयणा कण्णवेयणा कण्डू उयरे कोढे ।" 2 "37131 1311 310 13 Haut 345 ECT377 fait face || XX6 11"
This verse is looked upon by some as spurious. But it should not be forgotten that in Dasaveyaliyanijjutti there is a reference to two Cūlās. The pertinent verse is as under:
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