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________________ JAINA LITERATURE OF THE NORTH V. Six Chedasutras 1. Nisiha (Nisitha). 2. Nahanisiha (Mahanisitha). 3. Vavahara (Vyavahara). 4. Ayaradasao (Acaradasal), or Desasuyaskhandha (Dasasrutaskhandha). 5. Brhatkalpa. 6. Pancakalpa. VI. Four Milasutras. 1. Uttaraylayana (Uttaradhyayana). 2. Avassaya (Avasyaka). 3. Dasaveyaliya (Dasavaikalzka). 4. Pindanijutti (Pindani yukti). VII. Two Solitary Texts : 1. Nandisutta (Nandisutra). 2. Anynuogada asutta (Anuyogadvarasutra). All these scriptures form the canon of the Svetambaras alone, because they are disowned by the Digambaras. This tradition of the latter is connected with the great famine which broke out in Magadha during the glorious days of Hindu rule under Candragupta Maurya. After the emigration of Bhadrabahu and his followers to the south it so happened that the holy texts of the Jainas were threatened with the danger of falling into oblivion, and a council was called by Sthulabhadra and his followers, who had preferred to remain at home, early in the third century B.C., at Pataliputra, a place historic in the annals of their order and at the same time the capital of the Mauryan Empire. This council of the Jainas, as Dr Charpentier tells us, "may have discharged pretty much the same functions as are recorded of the first Buddhist counal." 1 A canon was fixed by the council including both the Angas and the Purvas, and thus is undoubtedly the first origin of the Siddhanta.Now the monks who had returned home from the south were by no means satisfied with these arrangements. They 1 Charpentier, op art, Int , p 14 "Thus, according to Sthulabhadra's tradition, a canon was established including the ten first Parvas and Angas, as well as other scriptures which are recorded to have been composed by Bhadrabahu-eg the Kalpa-Sutra"--Ind "Therefore a council was called at Pataliputra m which the 11 Angas were put together and the rest of the 14 Puroas were corporated into the 12th Anga, the Difthicaya "_ internitz, op cit, p 299 Cf Farquhar, Relgrous Literature of India, P 75, Jacobi, Kalpa-Sutra, Int, pp 11, 15 For Hemacandra's version about the synod at Pataliputra see Pamsishtaparan, Canto IX, V 55-T6, 101-108 221
| SR No. | 011067 |
| Book Title | Jainism in North India |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chimanlal J Shah |
| Publisher | Longmans Green and Compny London |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 66 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 3 MB |