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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 Mahavira 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
The title
This Agama is the ninth Anga of the Dwādaśangi. As it contaisten Adhyayanas regarding the Munis born in the Aruttara Swarga class, its title is given as Anuttarowawāiya-Dasāo'. The Nandi Sūtra mentions only three Vargas? The Sthānānga quotes only ten Adhyayanas. According to the Rajavärttika groups of ten Anuttaropapātika Munis, contemporaries of each Tirthanker, have been narrated in it.* The Samawāyanga mentions the ten Adhyayanās and the three Vargas too. But the headings of the ten Adhyavanas have not been given in it. According to the Sthānänga and the Tattwärtha vårttika they read as, Risidasa, Dhanya, Sunaksatra, Karttika. Swastban, Salibhadra, Ananda, Tetali, Daśārnabhadra and Atimuktas, and as Risidasa, Dhanya, Sunaksatra, Kärttika, Nandanandana, Sätibhadra, Abhaya, Warişeņa, and Cilattaputra respectively. The above said Munis were the contemporarics of Lord Mahavira, such is the opinion of the author of the Tatta wārtha värttika." In the Dhawala we find Kartikeya instead of Kärttika and Anand instead of Nanda?.
The present form of the Agama is different from the 'Vaćna' of the Sthânāga and the Samawāyānga. Abhayadeva Süri 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. Tatiawarth varttikas 1/20, Kasayapahuda I, page 130. 4. Samawao, painnaga samawao, Sutra 97. 5. Thanam 10/114. 6. Tatiwarthvarttjka 1/20. 7. Satkhundagama 1/1/2.
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