Agam 10 Ang 10 Prashna Vyakaran Sutra Panhavagarnaim Terapanth

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

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By the Adhyayana of Atimuktaka Muni, the value of spiritual accomplishment can be well understood. Fasting alone is seen in this Agama through out. The narrations of meditations are scanty. Lord Mahavira had laid stress upon both-the fast and the meditation. In the classification of penance, fast is the outer penance and meditation is the inner one. Lord Mabavira in his penance-period, had observed both, fast and meditation. It is worth investigating why this Agama lays so much stress on fasting only. This Agama, a remanent in the succession of oblivion and reproduction, is valuable and worthy of research work from many points of view.
ANUTTAROWAWAIYA-DASÃO
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The title
This Agama is the ninth Anga of the Dwadasangi. As it containsten Adhyayanas regarding the Munis born in the Anuttara Swarga class, its title is given as 'Anuttarowawaiya-Dasão'. The Nandi Sūtra mentions only three Vargas. The Sthänänga quotes only ten Adhyayanas. According to the Rajavarttika groups of ten Anuttaropapätika Munis, contemporaries of each Tirthanker, have been narrated in it. The Samawayanga mentions the ten Adhyayanas and the three Vargas too. But the headings of the ten Adhyayanas have not been given in it. According to the Sthänänga and the Tattwärthavarttika they read as, Rişidasa, Dhanya, Dhanya, Sunakṣatra, Kärttika, Swasthan, Salibhadra, Ananda, Tetali, Daśärnabhadra and Atimukta, and as Risidasa, Dhanya, Sunakṣatra, Kärttika, Nandanandana, Saubhadra, Abhaya, Wärişena, and Cilattaputra respectively. The above said Munis were the contemporaries of Lord Mahavira, such is the opinion of the author of the Tattawärthavärttika. In the Dhawala we find Kartikeya instead of Karttika and Anand instead of Nanda".
The present form of the Agama is different from the 'Vaćna of the Sthäniga and the Samawäyänga. Abhayadeva Sür! holds that it is a different "Vacna'. In the form of the Agama, that is available, three Adhyayanas, such
1. Nandi, Sutra, 89.
2. Thanam, 10/114.
3. Tattawarth varttikas 1/20, Kasayapahuda I, page 130,
4. Samawao, painnagasamawao, Sutra 97.
5. Thanam 10/114.
6. Tattwarthvarttika 1/20.
7. Satkhundagama 1/1/2