Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS and angle. Possibly this 9th pahuda is the Porisimandala listed among the anga-bāhira tcxts.
In the 10th pāhuda and in most of thc following it is no longer the sun but the moon and the stars that are dominant. Wc, therefore, venture to assume that it was here where the Candapannattı, the so-called 7th Uvanga, camc in. All we know of it from manuscripts apart from differences in spelling is identical with the Sūra pannattı.1 Pāh 10 has 22 p-pāhuda. They contain the list (āvalıyā) of the 28 nakşatras (5 pad ) according to its begining and end, the duration of their conjunction (joga) with the moon; the portions (bhāga) of day or night when thc conjunction starts; the moment when it starts;(5.) the narrower or wider relationship (kula, uvakula, hulóvakula)of the naksatras with the months; the days of full and new moon in their relation to the kula, ctc.; the shape (sam thuı) of every individual naksatra, the number of their stars (tār'agga), (10). the naksatras as guides (nelā)of the months and as the measures of the shadow casted in them by the sun; the position of the naksatras to the course of the moon (canda-magga) and the orbit of the moon during 15 days (c. mandala); void of n. or not, the gods of the naksatras (Bambhadevayā, Vinhu-d.,etc.), the names of the 30 muhulla, the names of the 15 days and nights of a half-month; (15.) the 5 names recurring three times, of the 15 tithis and their nights, the gotras, of the n. (Moggallāyāna, Sankhājana, etc.); thc food conducive to trade affairs under a certain n.; the frequency of a conjunction of a n. with moon and son (canda-cara and arcca-c.) in the course of the 5 years' Yuga, the names of the 12 months; (20 ) the 5 kinds of years and their sub-species; the gates of thc naksatras (309sassa dārā), 7 of each opening into a cardinal direction (5 pad ); and, finally (nakkhatta-vijaya) the duplicity of sun, moon, and n , their junction with the 62 full moon-and new moon-days in one Yuga, the coincidence of the movements of the 2 moons, 2 suns, etc in The beginning of each of the 5 years of a Yuga. 12. The 5 kinds of years forming the sub-species of one of the 5
1 Malayagini's quotation from the Candap Sthān 415a=Sūrap. 173b 2 Comp JACOBI ZDMG 74, 258