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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CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE AGAMAS
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Jīvābhigama', Pannavaṇā2, Surapaṇṇatti3, Candapannatti1 and Jambuddivapannatti. In his com. on the 3rd Uvanga, he refers to an earlier com., but he has not mentioned the commentator. So this does not help us. His com. on the 7th Uvanga was lost at least by the time Prameyaratnamañjūṣā was composed in Samvat 1661. So this also does not improve the situation.
Śricandra Suri has commented upon Uvangas 8 to 12, in Samvat 1228. But he is silent so far as the number of the Uvangas is concerned. So it now remains to be seen as to what Haribhadra Suri', well-known as the dharmasūnu of Yakini Mahattara, has said in his com. on Pannavaṇā, the 4th Uvanga. On going through the first few folios of one of its Mss., I came across the following line:
“तच्चाङ्गोपाङ्गप्रकीर्णकाद्यनेकभेदमिदं... अपवर्गावहमिति कृत्वा तदेकदेशभूतप्रज्ञापनाख्योपाङ्गप्रदेशानुयोगः
प्रारभ्यते ।'
This only informs us that Panṇavana is an Uvanga; but it throws no further light on this problem.
Turning to Siddhasena Gani's com. on Tattvartha (I, 21) and its
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"तृतीयाङ्गस्य स्थाननाम्नो.... जीवाजीवाभिगमनामकमुपा पूर्वटीकाकृताऽतिगम्भीरमल्पाक्षरैर्व्याख्यातम् " (p. 10). " प्रज्ञापनेति कः शब्दार्थः ?.... इयं च समवायाख्यस्य चतुर्थाङ्गस्योपाङ्गम्" (p. 2 and p. 20).
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It seems nowhere in the com., it is said that it is an Uvanga, much less that it is an Uvanga of such and such an Anga.
The com. on this work is in a Ms. form and is not available to me at present. See the ending portion of fn. 1.
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" उपाङ्गानां च मध्ये प्रथममुपा श्री अभयदेवसूरिभिर्विवृतं, राजप्रश्रीयादीनि षट् श्रीमलयगिरिपादैर्विवृतानि, पञ्चोपाङ्गमयी निरयावलिका च श्रीचन्द्र [ प्रभ] सूरिभिर्विवृता, तत्र प्रस्तुतोपानस्य वृत्तिः श्रीमलयगिरिकृताऽपि सम्प्रति कालदोषेण व्यवच्छिन्ना"
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7. According to Gathāsahasri composed in Samvat 1630 he died in Samvat 535. Another tradition which can be traced till the 13th century gives 529 A.D. as the date. But several modern scholars believe that he lived from A.D. 700 to 770 or
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8. He flourished sometime between the 6th and the 9th centuries. Probably he is an author of the com. on Ayāra-the com. available at the time Śilanka commented upon it, and he is the very one designated as Gandhahastin.