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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of the Nandi we shall find that we have to deal with a rich literature of which nearly half has probably been lost. On the other hand, among these 60 texts we miss not only at least six names which are now enumerated as portions of the Siddhānta ; but all the titles of those groups are lacking, in which the Siddhānta is at present divided. These 60 names are enumerated without any reference whatever to any definite order in groups, and in a succession entirely different from the present order. Does this state of things permit us to conclude that neither the texts which are not mentioned in the enumeration nor the present groupings or titles of group existed at the date of the Nandi ?
At present the entire Siddhānta embraces the following 45 texts83 divided into the following six groups : 1. eleven (or twelve) angas : [226) Ācāra, Sūtrak rtam (krit), Sthānam, Samavāya, Bhagavati, Jñātā dharmakathas, Upāsakadaśās, Antak rddaśās, Anuttaraupapātikadasās, Praśnayyākaraṇam, Vipāka (Drşțivāda, no longer extant), 2. twelve upangas : Aupapātikam, Rājapraśniyam, Jivābhigama, Prajñāpanā, Jambūdvīpaprajñapti, Candraprajñapti, Süryaprajñapti, Nirayāvali (or Kalpikā), Kalpāvatamsikā, Puşpikā, Puşpacūlikā, Vrşņidaśas, 3. ten painnas ; Catuḥśaraņa, Samstāra, Āturapratyākhyānam, Bhaktaparijñā, Tandulavaiyāliā3* Candāvījā,84 Devendrastava, Gaņivijā,34 Mahāpratyākhyā. nam, Virastava, 4. six chedaśutras : Niśitham, Mahāniśitham, Vyavahāra, Daśāsrutaskandha, Brhatkalpa, Pañcakal pa, 5. two Sutras without a common name, Nandi and Anuyogadvāram, 6. four mulaśutras : Uttaradhyayanam, Āvaśyakam, Daśavaikālikam, and Pindaniryukti. This division is that of Bühler (see Jacobi, Kalpas. p. 14), with an exception in the succession of up. 5-7, where I have deviated from his arrangement on the strength of the Vidhiprapa and the scholium on up. 6. The same division is found also in Ratnasāgara (Calc. 1880) except that there groups 3 and 4 have changed places with 5 and 6, not to mention some minor differences. It is a very remarkable fact that in Rajendra Lal Mitra's Notices of Sanskrit MSS. 3. p. 67 (Calc. 1874)-on the authority of a definite source of information, the Siddhānta dharmasāra, we find an enumeration 35 varying materially from the above. First a very different grouping may be noticed ; [227) secondly, there
33 Those are probably the “45 āgamas," which the patron of the writer of a MS
(Saṁvat 1666, A.D. 1609) of the Vyavahārasutra (Berlin MS. or. fol. 1038) had
copied; see v. 10 of the statements at its end. 34 These names, both as regards form and signification are either of doubtful ex
planation, or are involved in obscurity. 35 Repeated in the Report on the Sanskrit MSS. examined during 1880-81" addressed
to the Govt. of the Punjab, by Pandit Kashinath Kunte. He has given the report twice with tolerable similarity-Jan. 24, 1881 (p. 4-7) and June 6, 1881 (p. 6-9).