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of all, found in the Vidhimārgaprapā by Jinaprabha (Circa 13th century).' Generally, the term “Prakīrņaka' means “a treatise compiled on miscellaneous subjects'. According to Malyagiri, the commentator on the Nandīsūtra, the monks used to compose the Prakīrņakas based on the sermons of the Tīrtharkaras (the Prophets Propounders of the Jaina faith). “Caurāsīim painnagasahassāim”, in the Samavāyāngasūtra, points towards eighty-four thousand Prakīrņakas having been composed by the eighty-four thousand disciples of the first Tīrtharikara, Lord Prophet Rsabhadeva.? As there were fourteen thousand disciples in the order of the last (twenty-fourth) Tīrthařkara, Lord Prophet Vardhamāna Mahāvīra, the number of Prakīrņakas now should be of a similar number. However, today the number of Prakirnakas is not definitely known and presently only ten Prakīrṇakas are taken amongst the forty-five canonical works recognised by the idolworshipping white-clad (Svetāmbara Mūrtipājaka) Jainas. These ten Prakīrņakas are as follows? :
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Catuḥsarana, Aturapratyākhyāna, Mahāpratyākhyāna, Bhaktaprijñā, Tandulavaicārika, Samistāraka, Gacchācāra, Ganividyā,
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Vidhimārgaprapā, p. 55. Samavāyāngasūtra, Ed. Muni Madhukara, Agam Prakashan Samiti, Beawar, I Ed., 1982, 84th Samavāya, p. 143. A. Prāksta Bhāṣā Aur Sāhitya Kā Ālocanātmaka Itihāsa, Dr. Nemicanda Shastri, Varanasi, p. 197. B. Jaina Āgama Sāhitya : Manana Aur Mīmāmsā, Ācārya
Devendramuni Shastri, Udaipur, p. 388. C. Āgama Aur Tripitaka : Eka Anuśīlana, Muni Nagaraj, p. 486.
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