Canonical Literature Of Jainas

SR No.: 022774
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H R Kapadia
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay
Publication Year: 1941
Total Pages: 286
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 26 MB

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS ( CHAP suyakkhandhas named as Nāyaand Dhammakahā. The former has 19 subdivisions», each styled as ajjhayaņa; and the latter has 104, each styled as vagga. Further, each vagga has subdivisions , each known as ajjhayuņa.
As regards the contents, we have in the 8th ajjhayana, the narration of Malli, the 19th Tirthankara as a female. She gets a mohanagharu ("a house intended for confusion'') prepared in order to make the six princes (who wooed her ) realize the filth of the human body and thereupon make them decide to renounce the world. In the 9th, we come across a mariner's fairy tale. Herein is men. tioned the winged horse as is the case with the Valahassa-jātaka (No. 196). The 16th ajjhayana furnishes us with a narration of Dovai (Sk. Draupadi) in the form of a story of her rebirth.”
In the 2nd suyakkhandha? there is a story of the goddess Kāli.
1-2 Each of these names occurs in plural. 3 Their names are given in the following verses of this very work:
"उक्खित्तणाए १ संघाडे २ अंडे ३ कुम्मे ४ य सेलगे ५।
तुब ६ य रोहिणी ७ मल्ली ८ मायंदी ९ चंदिमा १० इय॥ दावद्दवे ११ उदगणाए १२ मंडुक्के १३ तेयली १४ वि य । नंदीफले १५ अवरकंका १६ अतिने १७ सुसमा १८ इय ।।
अवरे य पुंडरीय णा य ए १९ ए गुण वी स त मे।" It is said that out of these, the 14th ajjhayana may be compared with Avassayacunni (pt. II) where paccakkhāna is explained. 4 "दोच्चस्स णं भंते! सुयक्खंधस्स धम्मकहाणं समणेणं जाव संपत्तेणं के अट्टे पन्नत्ते? एवं खलु जंत्र :
HOTU HTRIU HETI CA 971 9771"-II, 1; s. 148. 8 Their respective numbers are 5, 5, 54, 51, 32, 32, 4, 4, 8 and 8. The total
comes to 196. 6 In A His. of Ind. Lit. (vol. II, p. 449) it is remarked: “This is a monkish
corruption of the legend from the Mahābhārata of Draupadi's marriage to the five brothers.”
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As regards this suyakkhandha, Prof. Winternitz observes :
"Book II of this Anga is a complete contrast to Book I both in fornu and contents, and is more closely associated with the seventh and the ninth Angas."--Ibid., p. 448