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________________ The Date of Kasāyapāhuda K. R. Chandra The available canonical orāgama literature inherited by the Svetāmbara sect originally was composed in Ardhamāgadhī; whereas that of the Botika/ Ksapanaka of northern Indian and its derivative the Yāpaniya of Southern India had inherited the āgamas which were composed in Sauraseni. The surrogate or iso-āgamic works of the Digambara Church, too, had employed Sauraseni Prakrit. The earliest works of this pro-canonical literature are the Kasayapāhuda, the Satkhandāgama, and the works of Kundakundācārya. There is a general trend among the contemporary Digambara authors to place Gunadharācārya, the author of theKasāyapāhuda, earlier than Kundakundācārya, the author of the Samaya sāra, the Pravacanasāra, the Pañcâstikāya, and a number of other works. In this article, the language of the Kasāyapāhuda and of the Pavayanapähuda olim Pravacanasāra is analysed with the view to finding out which work can be assigned an earlier date on the basis of the main linguistic characteristics. Linguistic Data I Phonological Changes Kasayapāhuda (=KP) Pavayanasāra (=PS) Number Percentage Number Percentage (i) medial -t (including -to,-tā, -ti,-te,-tu) =-t O 0.80 84.8 560 94.63 =-d- 413 =-y- or -a- 74 15.2 29 4.57 Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
SR No.269041
Book TitleDate of Kasyapahuda
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorK R Chandra
PublisherZ_Nirgranth_Aetihasik_Lekh_Samucchay_Part_1_002105.pdf and Nirgranth_Aetihasik_Lekh_Samucchay_Part_2
Publication Year2004
Total Pages7
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationArticle & Agam
File Size111 KB
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