Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
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As is usual, the Nijjutti first niksepizes the title of the lecture, but for the details we mainly depend on Sīlânka, because for the Cunni we only have C with its many textual corruptions at our disposal.
Though I do not understand Jinadāsa's remark here", yet a hint can be drawn from him to the correct etymology of Addaya, namely one born under the asterism Ardra, as mentioned by Pånini (4, 3, 28)5.
(N 185) "Moist" in material sense is moist with water (1), moist by nature (2), moist on the surface (3), oily (4) and sticky (5). Moist in a figurative sense is full of love-feeling.
Subsequently, śīlanka gives the following examples for dav'-adda : mud (1), Gmelina arborea (?), Sochal salt and the likes (2), camphor, red Aśoka? etc. (3), smeared with a fatty substance (as marrow)8 (4) and pillars, walls etc. smeared with hard mortaro (5).
(N 186) The quantity of life bound by a form of existence, the future name and the family—these are the three kinds of material adda one should know.
As to śīlânka, dravyârdra pertaining to Prince Ardraka can also be taken differently, according to Anuog $ 49110, that is -, namely concerning a soul which immediately after returning from a heaven is reborn in the person of Ardraka-kumāra whose quantity of life, name, and sex are the immaterial counterpart to dravyârdra?
(N 187) In Addapura there lived a vagrant ascetic named Addaya, the son of Adda. After him, namely Addaya, this lecture got its name.
(N 188) The Jina's word, namely the 12 Angas, indeed is everlasting and eminent, (and) so are all their lectures and all combinations of syllables.
(N 189) Nevertheless, some truth appears this very moment as was said earlier and approved of in the Isibhāsiyaim.
As the stanza begins with taha vi ya a preceding jai vi is expected. Here apparently a stanza has dropped out which Śīlânka still had before him as he glosses the words jai vi by yady api sarvam-apîdam dravyârthatah śāsvatam.