Agam 02 Ang 02 Sutrakrutang Sutra Suyagado Terapanth

Author(s): Tulsi Acharya, Nathmalmuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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19. Tirathankara 20. Ganadhara 21. Cakrawarti 22. Baladeva-Vasudeva!.
A comparative study of both the tables of contents makes it clear that the table of contents given in the Nandi is a brief one, and that of the 'Samawa-o' large. The volume of the Sūtra, too, becomes short and long according to the tables of contents.
That the 'ekoitarika Vriddhi' (Increasing one by one) takes place upto hundred is mentioned in both the accounts. In either of them, there is no mention of the 'Anekottarika Vriddhi'. The Anekottarika Vriddhi has not at all been mentioned in the Nandi Čūrni, Haribhadriya Vritti and the Malaya Giriyavritti, all the three Abhayadeva Sūri has discuss the Anekottarika Vriddhi in his Vșitti of Samawāyānga. According to him, the Ekottarika Vșiddhi takes place upto huodred and beyond that the Anekottarikā Vriddhi.2
It appears that the Vșittikāra has discussed it not on the account given in the 'Samawāyānga' but on the text then available to him.
On reviewing both the accounts, two questions arise
1. Is not the present Samawāyānga different from the account of the Samawāyānga given in the Nandi ?
2. Is the present Samawāyānga is of the Vaćna by Devardhigani ? If so, why then such a variation in both the accounts of the 'Sama wäyānga'?
In reply to the first question, it can be said that 'Dwādasānngi' is the final content of the Samawāyānga-Sutra according to the account, relating to the Samawāyānga, given in the Nandi. Many a content has been expounded beyond the 'Dwadaśangi in the present Samawāyānga. It is therefore, established that the present volume of the 'Samawāyānga' is different from that of the account of the Samawāyanga given in the Nandi.
1. Samawa-o, pa-i-nnagasawawo, Sutra. 92. 2. Samawa-o Vritts, patra 105.
*ca sabdasya canyatra samband hatdkottarika anekottarika ca, tatra satam yawa tekottarika parata gnekottariketi,