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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GENESIS OF THE JAINA SCRIPTURES sphere of the Jaina scriptures. Furthermore, he must be aware of the fact that it is possible to say that kathānuyoga is more beneficial and more appealing than dravyānuyoga so far as laymen are concerned. So it is not unnatural if one assigns to Aņuoga, a place prior to puvvagaya, on the ground that Aņuoga is mostly, if not entirely, associated with dharmakathānuyoga (probably of a higher type), and Puvvagaya, with dravyānuyoga', which is, in a way, subordinate to kathānuyoga. Similarly one who may be attaching the greatest importance to dravyānuyoga in preference to any of the rest of the anuyogas, may very well turn the tables against Aņuoga and assign to it a place next to Puvvagaya, and not ahead of it.
These are the only solutions I can think of, at present. Consequently I shall not now any more dwell upon this problem.
This finishes a rough survey of the genesis of the dvādaśāngi; but that does not mean the termination of the topic of this chapter. For, there are a good many Jaina scriptures besides the dvādaśāngī, though they are practically evolved? out of this dvādaśāngi, and that they are not the immediate compositions just coeval with the establishment of the tīrtha by the Tirthankara in question. This means that I should, first of all, define the phrase "Jaina scriptures" and then indicate the scriptures which are not included in the dvādaśāngī.
To begin with, I may note the various meanings of the word 'scripture' as given in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (p. 1072 of the new edition revised by H. W. Fowler): "The Bible with or 1 Cf. the following verse of the Āvassayamūlabhāsa :
"कालियसुयं य इसिभासियाई तइआ य सूरपन्नत्ती।
सव्वो. य दिट्ठिवाओ चउत्थओ होइ अणुओगो ॥ १२४ ॥ This very verse occurs in Visesăvassayabhāsa as v. 2294. So far as this dvādaśangi is concerned, its 12 Angas are evolved out of Ditthivāya also known as Bhūyāvāya. So says the following verse of Visesāvassayabhāsa :"जइ वि भूयावाए सव्वस्स वओमस्स ओयारो । निजहण तहावि है दुम्मेहे पप्प इत्थी य ॥ ५५१ ।।
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