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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CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE AGAMAS
Turning to Siddhasena1 Gani's com. on Tattvartha (I, 21) and its Bhasya (p. 94), we come across the following line:"उपाङ्गानि - राजप्रसेनकीयोपपातिकादीनि”
This very line occurs in Haribhadra Suri's com. (p. 76") on Tattvartha (I, 21) and its Bhāṣya.
From this it follows that these two commentators look upon the 2nd and 1st Uvangas as Upangas and include some more works in the same group; but unfortunately we do not know as to what they are. One more point worth noting in this connection is that the order of the 1st two Uvangas as mentioned by both of these commentators of Tattvartha, differs from that noted before. Can we therefore infer that here the order is immaterial and enumeration, the main object? Or is it that in the time of these commentators, Rajaprasenakiya was looked upon as the 1st Uvanga and Aupapātika as the 2nd, and subsequently3 the order was reversed? I am not in a position to give a final answer to these questions at present. So leaving them aside I may note that at least by the time the Bhasya on Tattvartha was composed, a certain class of works was no doubt designated as Upanga, and the same was the case at least by the time when Nirayavalisuyakkhandha was composed.5
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1 He flourished sometime between the 6th and the 9th centuries. Probably he is an author of the com, on Ayära-the com. lost by the time Śilanka commented upon it, and he is the very one designated as Gandhahastin.
2 This name Rajaprasenakiya is rather unique, and the same is the case with the name Rajaprasenajit occurring in Devendranarakendraprakarana composed by Municandra Suri, the guru of Vadin Deva Suri; for, usually, in Samskṛta we come across the name Rajapraśniya. It may however be added that the Samskṛta equivalent of Rayapasenaïya, a name occurring in some of the Mss. of Nandi may be Rajaprasenakiya.
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Hemacandra considers Aupapatika as the 1st. This is what can be inferred from his com. (p. 104) on Abhidhanacintamani (II, 159). There he says: " इत्येकादश प्रवचन पुरुषस्य अङ्गानीवाङ्गानि सहोपात्रैः औपपातिकादिभिर्वर्तन्ते सोपाङ्गानि "
"तस्य महाविषयत्वात् तांस्तानर्थानधिकृत्य प्रकरणसमाप्यपेक्षमङ्गोपाङ्गनानात्वम्......अन्यथा ह्यनिबद्ध19: AIL GREATAIÀ FAIL"-Bhasya (p. 94) on Tattvärtha "उवंगाणं भंते! समणेण, जाव संपत्तेणं के अट्ठे पन्नत्ते ? ॥ ३ ॥ एवं खलु जंबू ! समणेणं एवं उवंगाणं पंच वग्गा पन्नत्ता, तं जहा - निरयावलियाओ १ कप्पवडिंसियाओ २ पुफियाओ ३ पुष्कचूलियाओ ४ aforcerओ ५ ।" (pp. 3-4 )
Did all these 5 vaggas form one text originally, and were they separately counted subsequently?
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