Somnolent Stras Sriptural Cmmentary In Svetambara Jainism

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Simghl Jain Granthamala Vol. 25, Bombay, 1949, verse 4: "gudhatthadesirahiyam sulaliyavannehim gamthiyam rammam / päiyakavvam loe kassa na hiyayam suhāvei." Cf. also H. C. Bhayani, "Another Rare Specimen of Archaic Jain-Maharastri": Taramgavasgaha of Padalipta," Sambodhi, 7, 1978–9, p. 115, note 5, for the author having left out of his abridgement of an earlier text dest words which were in abundance in the original. 74 The most obvious example is the tradition that Siddhasena Divakara wished to translate the scriptures into Sanskrit to facilitate their availability. See Phyllis Granoff, "Buddhaghosa's Penance and Siddhasena's Crime: Remarks on Some Buddhist and Jain Attitudes towards the Language of Religious Texts," in Koichi Shinohara and Gregory Schopen (ed.), From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion, Oakville/New York/London: Mosaic Press, 1991, pp. 17–33. Nathmal Tatia, introduction to Hanaki, Anuogaddārāim, p. viii, suggests that Prakrit was so ambiguous that it required some sort of analytical commentary. Cf. also note 101. 75 Abhayadeva's commentary on Sthānānga Sūtra, Jamb vijaya's reedition, p. 35:, sūtryante sūcyante va 'rthā aneneti sūtram, susthitatvena vyäpitvena ca süsthūktatvad vā sūktam, suptam iva vā suptam, avyākhyānenáprabuddhāvasthatväd iti. He then quotes as the source for this interpretation (“bhāsyavacanam tv evam") two Prakrit verses, for which see Jinabhadra Gaņin, Višesāvasyakabhāsya, ed. Nathmal Tatia, Vaishali: Research Institute of Prakrit, Jainology and Ahimsa, 1972, verses 1370-1 (identified as 1368 and 1369 in the appendix to Jambovijaya's reedition, pp. 374 and 408): simcai kharai jam attham tamhā suttam niruttavihinä vă / süei savai suvvai sivvai sarae va jen' attham (1370) and avivariyam suttam piva sutthiyavävittao va suttam ti / jo suttabhippão so attho ajjae jamhā (1371).
It has become customary for scholars of Theravada Buddhism to derive Pali sutta not from an original Sanskrit sūtra but instead from sükta. Such an etymology would imply that the suttas were understood by the early Buddhists as equivalent to, and by their ethical content superior to the hymns (sūkta) of the R8 Veda. In a recent article, Oskar von Hinüber, "Die Neun Angas: Ein Früher Verzuch zur Einteilung Buddhistischer Texte," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, 39, 1994, pp. 131-2, has cast doubt upon this derivation, pointing out that Buddhist tradition preserves no memory of it. 70 For a list of Dharmasagara's writings, see Labhasāgara Ganin's edition of his Sarvajñaśataka, Āgamoddharakagranthamala Vol. 18, Kapadvamj, v.s. 2024, pp. 910. 77 Pravacanaparīksā (for details, see note 2) 8.160, p. 219: yathā sampraty api mādrsasyāpi tathāvidhoktaprakārena karmaksayopasamavaicitryät kupäksikavikalpitamärgatiraskārapūrvakatirthavyavasthāpane rucih. For further general observations on Dharmasāgara, see Dundas, The Jains, pp. 123–24. 78 Mahāvīravijñaptidvātrimśikā (for details, see note 33), verse 25. 79 PP 8. 145–7 and pp. 219-220. Cf. also Balbir, Avasyaka-Studien, p. 41, for the niryukti layer of commentary completing and developing a satra but not contradicting
See PP 8.78, p. 89 and 8.162, p. 220. The earliest source for the Tryäpathikr confessional formula is the Avasyaka Niryukti, a commentarial text. Dharmasagara wrote a treatise, the Iryäpathikidvātrimśikā, Agamodayasamiti Vol. 49, Limvdt, 1927, to establish what he felt to be the correct procedure for this ritual, wanton misinterpretation of which he attributed to the Paurnamīyaka sect. In the Sūtravyākhyānavidhisataka (see note 23) p. 79, Dharmasagara rejects the view that a topic which does not occur in a sutra can therefore not appear in a niryukti. 81 See PP 8.148, p. 162 and 8.162, p. 220, şodaśasloki (text in Dharmasägaragranthasamgrahaḥ; see note 33), p. 116 and Sūtravyākhyānavidhisataka, p. 90. 82 PP 1.53-4, pp. 41-2. Cf. Nandisuttam and Anuogaddārāim, Jaina Āgama Series