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We do not here consider as such the jāvas that are mere abbreviations of well-known descriptions (vannao), enumerations, stereotyped phrases and the like 12; these are a very common phenomenon in most works of the Jaina Canon and pose a purely practical problem. By 'references' we here understand only the places in the Viy. explicitly (i.e. by means of jahā) or implicitly referring to the discussion of certain topics in other canonical texts. The first references of this type appear in I 12 where we read: ‘neraiyā nam bhante kevai-kālassa ānamanti vā pānamanti vā ūsasanti vā nīsasanti vā?' jahā Usāsa-pae. 'neraiyā nam bhante āhār'atthi?' jahā Pannavaņāe padhamae Ahār'uddesae tahā bhāņiyavvam. This means that the questions about the breathing and the attraction of matter with H must be answered as in Pannav. 7 and 28, i resp. Consequently the references in fact amount to the incorporation of the said sections of Pannav. into the Viy.
It is not necessary here to give the complete list of the places in the Viy, where references of this type are found; it can easily be gathered from the Conspectus in § 22 where such references have been indicated with the letter R. Here they will be considered from the point of view of the canonical texts referred to, viz Pannav., Jiv., Jambudd., Samav., Uvav., Aņuog. and Nandi. The first question they pose indeed is: which parts of these texts do the references incorporate into the Viy. ?
§ 10. Panna v a ņā, the fourth Uvanga, which is a great systematic pannatti treating the Jaina doctrine in thirty-six payas 13, is the text most frequently referred to. The following synopsis will show that practically the whole Pannav. has been incorporated into the Viy.
12 Among abbreviations of the common jāva-type in fact we may also reckon the four references to Räyap., viz III 68 (varnaka of the body-guards), VII 82 (the well-known simile of the lamp in the dark room), VIII 2' (the ramification of nāna; Rāy. itself here refers to Nandi) and X 6 (varnaka of Suriyābha's residence).
13 Cf. Lehre par. 48,4.
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