Jain Journal 1992 04

SR No.: 520106
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 70
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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Sacred Literature of the Jains'
According [211]2 to the conception of the modern Jains, their collective sacred texts date back to the first Jipa, Rşabha.3 The first trace of this view appears to be found in the concluding paragraph of the Nandi, in which the aņunnā (anujñā) is referred to Usabhaseņa, 5 the 12 angas having in the passage just before been enumerated as bhāvānunnā and in an earlier passage, in which 8,400,000 painnas are attributed to Vaddhamanasāmi, the scholium substitutes Rşabhasvamin.
The statements (in four. 436 in Nemicandra's Pravacanasāroddhāra $36, composed in Prakrit, on titthavucchea (in four verses inserted between 435 and 436) are, to a certain extent, in agreement with the above. These verses are a detailed explanation of the statements in v. 434, which are rather general in character and obscure; and assert that during the eight jiņaṁtaras : Usahajiņiņdāu jā Suvihi, i.e. from Usaha 1 to Suvihi 9, there existed only e'even angas, without the ditthivāa, which stands in the twelfth place : multūņa dițthivāyaḥ hayaṁti ikkārase 'va amgāim. During [212] the following seven jiņaṁtaras : Suvihijinā jā Saṁti from Suvihi 9 to Samti 16, all twelve angas were vucchinna. But during the last eight jiņaṁtaras : Saṁtijiņā jā Viram, from Samti 16 to Vira 24, they were not vucchinna.
The dițrhivāa was a second time lost : vucchinno ditļhivão tahim.
1 The Editors beg to acknowledge much valuable assistance kindly given by Professor
Leumann, of Strassburg, in taking this paper through the Press; and the translator adds his acknowledgments for assistance of the same scholar in respect of the translation from the German, also, for some additional notes distinguished by
asterisms with the initial L put after them. 2 The figures in brackets indicate the pages of the original German article. 3 Dharmasagara in his Kupak sakausikāditya, in the proceedings of the Royal
Academy of Sciences, Berlin. of 1882, p. 813, 23 (I cite this essay of mine under the abbreviation Kup.) and Jacobi in this Journal ante, Vol. IX. p. 161 (1880). 4 Doubtless of secondary origin. 5 adikarapurimatāle (kale !) pavattia Usabhasemassa. 6 See Ind. Stud. 17, 15, note. Catalogue of the Berlin Sanskrit and Prakrit MS.
2, p. 679. In the commentary of Siddhasenasūri, composed Samvat 1242 (A.D. 1186) these verses are not explained, but in the MS. which I have before me they are found in the text, page 212, in the middle of the page, and are counted in with the rest.