Indian Antiquary Vol 18

SR No.: 032510
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 454
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1889.
In the case of angas 1 and 5, the numbers above given are less, in the case of all the others, greater than the actual state of the case. In a majority of cases the difference is simply ridiculous. The statement in reference to anga 5 (84,000)64 is not in harmony with the increase in 1-4 i.e. twice the number of the previous. We should expect that anga 5 should have preserved the same ratio, as is the case in N. This statement is in direct contradiction to those statements which are found in the MSS. of anga 5; according to which its extent is not 84,000 (and not 288,000, as is stated in N) bat 184,000 padas (Bhag. 1, 377), which corresponds well enough to its actual extent: 15,750 gr. = 189,000 padas. The peculiar nature of our statement in reference [289] to 84,000 padas is, finally, rendered more apparent by the fact that it is found in § 84 of the first part of our anga, on the strength of which it has again found a place here. In that it is so free from suspicion that I consider it correct for that period, and find in this very circumstance a critical criterion or testimony that, at that time, the fifth anga had not yet reached its present extent.
As peculiar as the statements in reference to numbers of padas are those concerning the 31 kiti" i. e. 35 millions, in anga 6. That all this is perfect nonsense, is perfectly apparent. See below. Finally there are several differences of a very surprising nature in the other statements which are not so readily set aside as incorrect or impossible, differences which exist partly in these statements themselves, partly in their relation to the actual facts. First, the difference in reference to the number of ajjhayaņas in anga 6 ; according to A and Abhayad. there are 19 and such is the actual state of the case-but according to BCN56 there are 29. Then as regards anga 8 the 10 ajjh. are wanting in N.67 The number of the vaggas (7), of the udd. (10) and of the samudd. (10) is in N everywhere 8; likewise as regards anga 9 N has the number 3 as in the case of the vaggas, and in that of the udd. and schudd.; in the case of anga 10 N adds 45 ajjh. and in that of anga 11 likewise 2 suyakh. In reference then [290] to the actual facts, we must make the preliminary observation that the division into udde sagas in the case of angas 8-11, and that into samuddésagas in general in all the angas, is not denoted in the MSS.58# The other differences refer chiefly to the fifth angam which has no division into ajjhayanas; in that anga they are called saya (sata), and their number is not 100 but 41 or, including the sub-sayas, 138; likewise the existing text has only 1925 (not 10,000) uddésagas. A special demarcation of vágaraña sections is unknown.5o What can possibly be the meaning of 36,000 vágaranas and only 84,000 padas! (cf. Bhag. 1. 376). The differences in reference to angas 8-11 are not less remarkable. As regards the vaggas (8), anga 8 agrees with N, but has, not 10 (cf. anga 3, 10), but 93 ajjh. ;-anga 9 has likewise not 10 (cf. again anga 3, 10), but 33 ajjk. ;-anga 10 has ten dáras; cf. the ten ajjh. in anga 3, 10, whereas we have here no information about dáras or ajjh., and N, on the other hand, speaks of 45 ajjh.-iga 11 has in agreement with N the 2 suyakl., which are not mentioned in the source of information before us. In the case of anga 12 there is no possibility of com, paring the statements in question with the text, since there is no longer any such extant.See below.60
Or sarva-milanena 1841 (v. 1. 1894) grunthas!
A So also Abhayadeva, who shows that he is evidently embarrassed in his statement : chaturasitipadasahasripi pedigréné 'ti samaviy apekshay ("in reference to 6 84") dvigunatay& (tky&P) iti (8) narayanat (). anyatha te dvigunatvé dve taksde asht&sitih Bahasrani cha bhavanti. In the following anga he states the number of padas ta be 576,000 i.e. twice that of those in anga 5, according to his computation.
# According to Leumann Ned. has 19 and not 29.--Here again, as with arga 1, only the first drutaskandha is intended by the assortion of there being 19 ajjhayanas and not 29. In the same way only Part I. of anga 11 has been known to the author of anga 3, 10 as has been shown above on p. 270.-L.
According to Leumann this is not so in Ned. ** This statement requires some inodification ; see the closing words of ages 8-10 in Weber's Cat. II., 502 (8), 807 (9), 520 (10: danu chevs divas su uddirijanti....), aga 11 has in the place a reference to sga 1 (see ibid. 534) which, however, has the same bearing.-L.
This demarcation, or the number 36,000 representing it, is also found in the table of contents of alliga 5 preceding the statements in reference to the extent.
* I will note here merely the fact that in the section in reference to the twelfth angam, Bhaddabhu is men. tioned by name, whom tradition proclaims to be the last teacher of this angam or of the fourteen purvas, see above, p. 214. It is furthermore stated that therein was contained section in reference to Bhaddabhu and to his history