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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reference to the observance of each of the 5 bhāvanāh, as conditions of the five mahāvratas ; and, as an introduction, gives the legends of the birth etc. of their teacher Mahāvira.
The fourth cūlā, vimutti, also having but one udd., consists of only eleven jagati-verses.
The table of contents of anga 1, found in anga 4, and in the Nandi is as follows : se82 kim tam āyāre ? āyāre nam samaņāņaṁ niggaṁthāņam āyāragoyare88 viņaya-veņaiyathāņa84 gamaņacaṁkamaņa-pamāņa-jogajuṁjanabhāsāsamitigutti seyyo-'vahi 85-bhatta-pāņa-uggama-uppāyaṇaesaņavisohi-suddhāsuddha-gahaņa86 vaya-niyama-tavo' vahāņa-suppasattham ähijjai [258] se samāsau pamcavihe pannatte : tam jahā : nāņāyāre daṁsaņāyāre carittāyāre tavāyāre viriyāyāre. From this we derive but little information concerning details or for the grouping of the contents. Following upon the table of contents are statements in reference to the division into 2 suyakkh, 25 ajjh , etc ; this is also the case with the following angas.
I have before me a commentary on anga 1, which was probably composed Saka 798,87 A. D. 876, and which at the end of the first part is designated as Nirvṛtakulinaśri Sālyaghāryeņa88* Tattvädityāparanämnă Vahari sädhusahayena krită ; at the end of the second part as ācāryā Silaṁkaviracită. This commentary is also a commentary on Prakrit niryukti,89 composed in the aryā measure.
In the opening the author refers to other works and to a sastraparijñāvivaranam Gandhahastik rtam, the sära of which he claims to
To be continued 1
82 For this se, which corresponds to the sa of the Sat. Br., see Ind. Streifen,
3, 391. 83 Goara N. 84 Instead of thānao to ahijjai N. has merely : sikkhabhasabhäsācarana-karanajāyā
māyāvitti (yatrā, mātrā, vytti). 85 sāyyā upadhi. 86 sayyādinām udgamadivi süddhyā śuddhānām asuddhānām ohagrahaņam. 87 According to Z. D. M. G. 33,478, it was composed Samvat 550 ; but see Kl. 247b,
where it is noted that the verse, which contains the date is added after the colophon of the MS." and consequently of no great weight' in all probability. It is as follows: "Sakavysay kālāri (lat !) samvat sarasateşu saptasusastānavatit
(navaty adhikesu vaisakhaśuddhapañcamyām ācārațīkā kyte ti. 88* Misreading for śilācāryeņa.-L. 89 Doubtless the same niryukti as that composed by the author of the Ay. nijj.
(see ante, p. 252).