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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
[1143.
पाक्षिकसूत्र
Pāksikasūtra (1987)
( Pakkhiyasutta ) No. 1143
750 (a).
1892-95. Size.-10 in. by 48 in. Extent.- 11 folios ; 13 lines to a page; 36 letters to a line. Description.- Country paper thick, rough and whitish; Deva
nāgarī characters ; bold, big, clear and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; edges singly; fol. Ia blank ; red chalk used ; numbers for foll. entered twice: once as usual and once as q ?,9 R, etc.; edges and corners of the first fol. slightly damaged ; condition tolerably good ; complete ; this Ms. contains @ENTATIE. See
No.953. Age.- Saṁvat 1842. Author.- Not mentioned. Subject.--- One of the sütras to be recited by Sādhus at the time
of the fortnightly pratikramaņa. It deals with mahāvratas and śrutakirtana thus giving us a list of canonical treatises.
Prof. Winternitz says on p. 471 of pt. II of 'A History of Indian Literature 'as under :
“The Pakkhi or the Pākşika-Sūtra is a liturgy in verse for the Pakkhi-Padikamaņam ( Pakși-Pratikramana), 1. e. the fourteen days' confession. The confession of the “five great vows” ( mahāvrata ), with which the work begins, also includes the worship of the patient ascetics" ( khamāsamaņa ), who are accounted the authors of the “sacred scriptures which stand outside the Angas” (angabāhiram ) and of the the twelve Angas, which gives rise to a solemn enumeration of the sacred writings (suttakittanam)."
The following observation made by him in this very work (pl. II, pp. 429-430 ) may be here noted :--
“The third and fourth Mūla-Suttas are also sometimes given as Ohanjjuiti (Ogha-Niryukti ) and Pakkhi ( Pakşika
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