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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS Ratnakaraṇḍaśrāvakācāra make up the fourth group known as caraṇānuyoga. This is what we learn from A History of Indian Literature (Vol. II, p. 474) where the following note occurs by way of substantiating this information :
"Cf. G. Bühler, in Ind. Ant. 7, 1878, p. 28 f.; Farquhar, Outline, 218 f.; Guérinot, La religion Djaina, p. 81 ff., 85 f. A somewhat divergent division of the Anuyogas is given by S. C. Ghoshal in SBJ, i, p. xi."
Adipurāņa (XXXIV, 135 ff.) and Harivamsapurāņa (II, 92 ff.) give some information about the 12 Angas.
We may now end this chapter by noting that the number of the Agamas was fixed as 45 at least by the time Viyārasāra was composed, and this number is acceptable even now to several Mürtipujaka Śvetämbaras who look upon 11 Angas, 12 Uvangas, 6 Cheyasuttas, 4 Mūlasuttas, 10 Painnagas and 2 Cūliyāsuttas as the 45 Agamas.1 Some of them however believe that the number of the Agamas is 84 consisting of the following works :
11 Angas, 12 Uvangas, 5 Cheyasuttas, 3 Mülasuttas, 30 Painnagas, 2 Culiyasuttas, Pakkhiyasutta, Khāmaṇāsutta, Vandittusutta, Isibhāsiya, Pajjosavaṇākappa, Jiyakappa, Jaijiyakappa, Saddhajiyakappa, 10 Nijjuttis, Pindanijjutti, Samsattanijjutti and Visesăvassayabhāsa.
The late Rajendralal Mitra in his Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts2 (Vol. III, p. 67) has given a list which is strikingly different from the traditional one.
1. These are also known as Suttas and Siddhanta as well. 2. This has been published from Calcutta in A. D. 1974.
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