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"The word 'division' (bheda) should be construed with each of the words two subdivisions, many subdivisions' and 'twelve subdivisions. First, by two subdivisions' are meant the outside anga (angabāhya) and the inside anga (argapravista). The outside anga has many divisions including Dasavaikälika, Urtarādhyavana. The inside anga has twelve subdivisions:
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)
Acara Sūtrakrta Sthana Samavāva Vvākhyāprajñapti Jñātrdharmakathā
(vii) Upāsakādhyayana (viii) Antakrddasā (ix) Anuttaraupapädikadašā (x) Praśnav vākarana (xi) Vipākasūtra (xii) Drstivāda
The Drstivāda comprises five sections:
(1) (ii) (iii)
parikrama sutra prathamānuyoga
(iv) (v)
pūrvagata cūlikā
Of these sections pūrva has fourteen subsections:
(i) utpädapūrva (ii) agrāvanīva (iii) vīryānupravāda (iv) astināstipravāda (v) jñānapravāda (vi) satyapravāda (vii) atmapravāda
(viii) karmapravāda (ix) pratyākhyānanāmadheva (x) vidyānupravada (xi) kalyāṇanāmadheya (xii) prāṇāvāya (xii) kriyāviśāla (xiv) lokabindusāra
This 'scripture is divided into three groups, which are respectively two-, many- and twelve-membered. Why are there such divisions? Because of different preachers. There are three kinds of preachers: omniscient saviors (sarvajñas tirthakara), perfect masters of scripture (śrutakevalin) and 'remote ones (ārälīva). Of them the omniscient highest saints, possessed of the highest knowledge, preached the āgama. The āgama is authoritative because the saints
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