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 brought from Lord Sīmandharasvāmin, as a present to the Jaina church four adhyayanas viz., Bhāvanā, Vimukti, Ratikalpa and Vicitracaryā. Of them the first two were allotted by the Jaina church a place in Āyāra as its two Cūlās and the last two as the two Cūlās of Dasaveyāliya. This will show that the two Cūlās of Dasaveyāliya are composed and assigned a place in the Jaina scriptures during the lifetime of Sthūlabhadra and his Guru Bhadrabāhusvāmin, too; for, the narration about the 4 Cūlās takes place soon after Jyesthā's conversation with Bhadrabāhusvāmin. According to some printed editions there are verses expounding these Culās, and they form a part of Dasaveyaliyanijjutti, and thus the Cūlas under consideration belong to the same period as that of Bhadrabābusvāmin. It may be that these verses come from the pen of one who composed bhāsa on Dasaveyāliya. If so, we cannot argue on the basis of these verses alone that they belong to the period of Bhadrabāhusvāmin. Anyhow, we may, for the time being, assume that the two Cūlās are composed during the lifeperiod of Bhadrabāhusvāmin, especially when two Cūlās are alluded to in the Nijjutti (v. 24) of Dasaveyaliya but even then the question of the order of these two Culas with Pindanijjutti and Ohanijjutti remains practically unsolved.
So far as Avassaya is concerned its authorship is either attributed to Indrabhūti or to a contemporaneous Śrutasthavira. Of course here by Āvassaya I mean that portion of Āvassaya on which we have Bhadrabāhusvāmin's Nijjutti and not the entire portion rightly or wrongly
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यक्षादयोऽपि विज्ञाय वतिन्योऽत्रान्तरे तु ताः । भगिन्यः स्थूलभद्रस्य वन्दनाय समाययुः ।।७८॥ वन्दित्वा गुरुमूचुस्ताः स्थूलभद्रः कनु प्रभो ! | लधुदेवकुलेऽस्तीह तासामिति शशंस सः ॥७९।। ततस्तमभिचेलुस्ता: समायान्तीविलोक्य सः । आश्चर्यदर्शनकृते सिंहरूपं विनिर्ममे ॥८॥ दृष्ट्वा सिंहं तु भीतास्ताः सूरिमेत्य व्यजिज्ञपन् । ज्येष्ठार्य जग्रसे सिंहस्तत्र सोऽद्यापि तिष्ठति ॥८।।
TUTTIGEURSecara TEST AT : HISPETTY 7 AT 11CRII" - Ibid 2. For instance, in Prof. K. V. Abhyankar's edition (p. 60) the last verse of this Nijjutti runs as under:
"आओ दो चूलाओ आणीआ जक्खिणीए अजाए।
सीमंधरपासाओ भवियाण विबोहणट्ठाए ॥४४७।।" Samayasundara resorts to this very verse in his com. (p. 111a) on Dasaveyaliya.