Agam 05 Ang 05 Study Of Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

Author(s): Suzuko Ohira
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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The first stage onwards The second stage The second stage onwards The second third stages The third stage The third stage onwards The third-fourth stages The fourth stage The fourth-fifth stages The fifth stage The fifth stage (x)
355 118
687 + 7
694
577
We have added here 7 su tras which form the opening passages of the Bhagavati (i.e. namaskara mantras and prologue passages entitled 'Rajagrha'). The total number we have entered in this table is 694, and the total number of sutras in the Suttāgame is 686. The reason for this difference has already been explained.
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The sub-totals of sutras belonging to the following age groups are shown in two groups in Table I below. We are not quite certain of the exact dates of the texts falling in the first stage onwards, the second stage onwards and the third stage onwards, which we include in their later age groups. Thus, group (1) indicates the approximate number composed in each age group.
Table
579
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14
(1) (a) The first stage onwards – the second-third stages
- the third stage - the third-fourth stages - the fourth stage :
- the fourth-fifth stages (2) The fifth stage
(a) The texts in Satakas 1-XX (b) X-sutras
+ 7 opening passages (c) The texts in Satakas XXI-XLI (687-867)
78 109 127 214 (661) 355 125 181
580
The Bhagavati colophon which forms the final sutra says that it contains 8,400,000 padas (culasiya-saya-sahassa). The Samavaya 162 records that the Vivahapannatti contains 84,000 padas (caura siim paya-sahassa). And the Nandi 50 counts 288,000 padas in it. Pada is said by the post-canonical authors to be of three kinds, i.e., artha-pada, pramana-pada and madhayama-pada.