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jaina Literature and Philosophy
[ 1143
पाक्षिकसूत्र
Pākşikasūtra (haagaa)
( 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
nāgari characters; bold, big, clear and good hand-writing; borders ruled in three lines in red ink ; edges singly ; fol. ja blank ; red chalk used ; numbers for foll. entered twice: once as usual and once as q. 3,TR, etc.; edges and corners of the first fol. slightly damaged ; condition tolerably good; complete ; this Ms. contains are A EE. See
No. 953. Age.- Samvat 1842. Author.-Not mentioned. Subject.- One of the sútras to be recited by Sadhus 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-Sutra is a liturgy in verse for the Pakkhi-Padikamanam ( Pakşi-Pratikramaņa), i. 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 (pt. II, pp. 429-430 ) may be here noted :
“The third and fourth Mula-Suttas are also sometimes given as Ohanjjutti (Ogha-Niryukti ) and Pakkhi ( Pākșika
