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 EXTANT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
127 the 16th (last) entirely in verse. But so far as the 2nd suyakkhandha is concerned it has its 1st 2 ajjhayanas, the 4th and the 7th wholly in prose whereas the 3rd in prose with 4 verses almost at the end, and the 5th and the 6th entirely in verse.
As regards the language of this 2nd Anga it is said in A History of Indian Literature (vol. II, p. 431):
"The most archaic language is to be found in the Ayāramga-Sutta, and next to this, in the Süyagadamga-Sutta and the Uttarajjhayana. Ardha-māgadhi is quite different from Jaina-Mahārāstrī, the dialect of the non-canonical Jaina texts."
As regards the authorship of both the suyakkhandhas the Jaina tradition is unanimous in believling it to be a work of one and the
adhara. It seems Prof. Winternitz differs; for, in A History of Indian Literature (vol. II, p. 438) he says:
"This Anga, too, consists of two books, the second of which is probably only an appendix, added later, to the old Anga which we have in the 1st book.”
I however do not endorse this opinion especially when Prof. Schubring in his Worte Mahavīras (p. 17 f.) observes that Sūyagada (II, I) "is closely related to Āyāra I (Bambhacerāim) both in wording and mode of expression."2 and when K. H. Dhruva attributes the authorship of both of these works to the same author.3
Contents of Sūyagada. To begin with, we may quote Samavāya (s. 23) where the names of all the 23 ajjhayanas are given since these names, being significant, help us in this direction:
"तेवीसं सूयगडज्झयणा पन्नता, तं जहा समए १ वेतालिए २ उवसग्गपरिणा ३ थीपरिन्ना ४
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They are in different metres such as Anustup, Vaitāliya etc. Prof. Jacobi in Z. D. M. G. (vol. XXXVIII, 593 and vol. XLV, 101) has noted that Vaitāliya stanzas and Yamakas occur. See A History of Indian Literature (vol. II, p. 441). See p. 125. fn. 4. "Hallo al 3151fcit aftra F 4 ."
--Siddhasena Gani's com (p. 91) on Tattvārthasutra This name occurring in I, 2, 1, 22 is doubly interpreted in Süyagadanijjutti (v. 28) : (i) vaidārika or destroyer of karmans and (ii) vaitālika, the metre in which it is composed.
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