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 Before proceeding further, I may mention that all these 10 works which are commented upon by Bhadrabāhusvāmin, a śrutakevalin, deserve to be included in the list of Jaina scriptures (and I accordingly do so), though a work like Sūriyapannatti is anonymous. For, its author, whoever he was, must have been an outstanding personality, and this work of his must have been of a very high order as not only to attract the attention of a śrutakevalin but to lead him to comment upon it.
To this list of the Jaina scriptures so far enumerated, may be added works composed by Sthūlabhadra. But we do not know whether he at all composed any work. This finishes the enumeration of the works of one and all the Śrutakevalins.
Now we may turn to the works of Daśapūrvadharas. Vajrasvāmin is said to be the last in the lot.2 We do not know if he or any other Dasapūrvadharas except śyāma Sūri who preceded him, ever composed any work. Pannavaņā is said to be the work of this very śyāma Sūri (Vira samvat 280=B.C.247; Vira samvat 376= B.C. 151)
It may be added in this connection that some of the Sangrahanīs on Uvangas (Upāngas) are compositions of some of the Daśapūrvadharas; for, this is what we learn from Drona Sūri's com. (p. 3a)3 on Ohanijjutti.
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This is due to the fact that in this avasarpiņi there has not flourished any such saint who knew 13, 12 or 11 Puvvas. The following lines from Drona Sūri's com. (p. 3a) on Ohanijjutti may be quoted in this connection :
"अस्यामवसर्पिण्यां चतुर्दशपूर्व्य नन्तरं दशपूर्वधरा एव सञ्जाताः, न त्रयोदशपूर्वधरा द्वादशपूर्वधरा एकादशपूर्वधरा वा" In Subódhikā (p. 169b) it is said : "महागिरिः १ सुहस्ती च २ सूरिः श्रीगुणसुन्दरः । श्यामार्यः ४ स्कन्दिलाचार्यो ५ रेवतीमित्रसूरिराट् ६ ॥ श्रीधर्मो ७ भद्रगुप्तश्च ८ श्रीगुप्तो ९ वज्रसूरिराट् । युगप्रधानप्रवरा दशैते दशपूर्विणः ॥" Vajrasvāmin was born in B. C. 31 and died in A. D. 57. The pertinent line is as under:
“andet 379 Heinokoa 391515Hİ HETKY a gar 11"
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