Agam 05 Ang 05 Study Of Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

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

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D.
Jam.
Ji.
Jn.
N.
P.
R.
S-C.
Sam.
Sth.
Vy.
Dasasrutashandha
Jambudvipa p.
Jivajivabhigama
Jnatadharmakatha
Nandi
Prajnapana
Rajaprasniya
Surya-Candra p. (We refer to the Candra p.)
Samavaya
Sthana
Vyavahara
Column IV. Entered here are the previous Bhagavati passage/s quoted by the relevant sutra/s. Indirect references are again placed in parentheses, and references for varnaka in brackets.
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Column V. Topics of each sutra or sutra group taken up for analysis. For the summary of each sutra, readers are advised to refer to the Viyahapannatti by Delue.
Column VI. Indicates the presence of appended gatha/s.
G signifies gatha/s offering guiding topics or a recapitulation of the topics in the sutra/s or uddesaka. It also includes the verse/s of quotation from the other texts. Historically speaking, these gathas begin to make their appearance in the fourth canonical stage when the doctrinal contents have advanced sufficiently to require their methodical systematization for mnemonic purposes.
Column VII. Entered here are the subsequent sutra/s which refer to the content of the relevant sutra/s.
Column VII. A chronological evaluation. The date of the relevant sutra/s is entered by way of assigning the corresponding stage/s proposed in Chapter I. We are frequently bound to assign a wider date to a text, for instance, 3> (the third stage onwards), which indicates that the upper limit of the content of the text under consideration falls in the third canonical stage, which however could have been composed in much later stage/s. Some texts containing postcanonical concepts are all placed in the fifth canonical stage.
The following portions in the Bhagavati I-XX, that must have been added in later days are excluded from this table: (1) Uddesaka titles at the beginning of each sataka (excepting XV an independent story text without uddeskas; for Sataka 1, see footnote, v.1, p.384 of the Suttagame), (2) The prologue passages running through 1.1.4-8 1/2 entitled 'Rajagrha', and (3) Namaskara mantras offered at the outset of Satakas
I (I.1.1-3), XV and XVII.
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