International Journal Of Jaina Studies Vol 01 To 03 2005 To 2007

SR No.: 022773
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Peter Flugel
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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not necessarily mean that by the time of Vidyānandin, i.e., by the ninth century, the Digambara tradition had lacked any knowledge about the canon.
4. Nemicandra, a Digambara philosopher of the tenth century, has a good knowledge of the Svetāmbara canon. In his Gommatasara Jiva-Kānda, Nemicandra refers to eleven titles of argas, as Pujyapāda and Akalanka do, and enumerates fourteen outside anga texts, including Daśavaikālika and Uttarādhyavana.17 Moreover, he not only mentions the titles of the agamas but also refers to the number of the pādas which are contained in the canon. With reference to the Acāranga, for example, he says that it consists of eighteen thousand pādas.18 Furthermore, Nemicandra seems to take into consideration the twelfth anga, the Destivāda, when he mentions five kinds of parikarma, one sūtra, one prathamánuvoga, the pūrvas and five cūlikās. 19 In this connection it is also interesting to note that the tive kinds of parikarma consist of Candraprajñapti, Suryaprajñapti, Jambūdvīpaprajñapti, Dvipasamudraprajñapti and Vvākhyaprajñapti.20 We come across these titles in the list of the canonical Śvetāmbara upāngas. As mentioned above, the Drstivāda in which these five texts are included is regarded as extinct by both traditions. Nemicandra may have intended to deny the authenticity of the upāngas, especially of those dealing with Jaina cosmology.21
What is common among these Digambara authors is that they do not emphatically deny the authority of the canonical works which they enumerate with titles.
5. Many Svetämbara philosophers mention the titles of their own canon. Umāsvāti, for example, refers to the names of the angas along with Uttarādhyayana, Dasavaikālikā, Rsibhāșita in the so-called auto-commentary on TS 1.20.22
17 Gommalascira, jiva kanda, vv. 355-356 (Nemicandra 1927: 202f.).
18 Gommatasära, jīva kanda, v. 358 (Nemicandra 1927: 203).
19 Gonmatasära, jīva kanda, vv. 361-362 (Nemicandra 1927: 204).
20 Gommatasära, jīva kanda, v. 361 (Nemicandra 1927: 204).
? It must be noted here that cosmology is one of the most controversial topics between the two schools. Different readings of the text of TS, chapters 3 and 4, which discuss Jaina cosmology, show a great discrepancy between the cosmologies of the Svetāmbara and Digambara traditions.
22 Sce TS 1.20 (p. 20). The present author regards the so-called auto-commentary as a work belonging to the Svetāmbaras.
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