Agam 18 Upang 07 Jambudveep Pragnapti Sutra Shwetambar Agam Guna Manjusha

Author(s): Gunsagarsuri
Publisher: Jina Goyam Guna Sarvoday Trust Mumbai

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Introduction 45 Agamas, a short sketch
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It is of the size of around 800 Ślokas.
(8) Antagaḍa-daśānga-sutra: It deals mainly with the teaching of the religious discourses. It contains brief life-sketches of the highly spiritual souls who are born to liberate and those who are liberating ones: they are Andhaka Vṛṣṇi, Gautama and other 9 sons of queen Dharini, 8 princes like Akṣobhakumāra, 6 sons of Devaki, Gajasukumara, Yadava princes like Jali, Mayāli, Vasudeva Kṛṣṇa, 8 queens like Rukmiņi. It is available of the size of 800 Ślokas. (9) Anuttarovavayi-daśānga-sūtra : It deals with the teaching of the religious discourses. It contains the life-sketches of those who practise the path of religious conduct, reach the Anuttara Vimāna, from there they drop in this world and attain Liberation in the next birth. Such souls are Abhayakumara and other 9 princes of king Śrenika, Dirghasena and other 11 sons, Dhanna Apagara, etc. It is of the size of 200 Ślokas.
I Eleven Angas: (1) Acărănga-sutra: It deals with the religious conduct of the monks and the Jain householders. It consists of 02 Parts of learning, 25 lessons and among the four teachings on entity, calculation, religious discourse and the ways of conduct, the teaching of the ways of conduct is the main topic here. The Agama is of the size of 2500 Ślokas.
(2) Suyagaḍānga-sutra: It is also known as Sūtra-Kṛtānga. It's two parts of learning consist of 23 lessons. It discusses at length views of 363 doctrine-holders. Among them are 180 ritualists, 84 nonritualists, 67 agnostics and 32 restraint-propounders, though it's main area of discussion is the teaching of entity. It is available in the size of 2000 Ślokas.
(3) Thapanga-sutra: It begins with the teaching of calculation mainly and discusses other three teachings subordinately. It introduces the topic of one dealing with the single objects and ends with the topic of eight objects. It is of the size of 7600 Slokas. (4) Samaväyänga-sutra: This is an encompendium, introducing 01 to 100 objects, then 150, 200 to 500 and 2000 to crores and crores of objects. It contains the text of size of 1600 slokas.
(5) Vyakhyā-prajñapti-sūtra : It is also known as Bhagavati-sūtra. It is the largest of all the Angas. It contains 41 centuries with subsections. It consists of 1925 topics. It depicts the questions of Gautama Ganadhara and answers of Lord Mahavira. It discusses the four teachings in the centuries. This Agama is really a treasure of gems. It is of the size of more than 15000 Ślokas.
(6) Jäätädharma-Kathānga-sutra: It is of the form of the teaching of the religious discourses. Previously it contained three and a half crores of discourses, but at present there are 19 religious discourses. It is of the size of 6000 Ślokas.
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(7) Upāsaka-daśānga-sutra: It deals with 12 vows, life-sketches of
10 great Jain householders and of Lord Mahāvīra, too. This deals with the teaching of the religious discourses and the ways of conduct.
(10) Praśna-vyākaraṇa-sūtra: It deals mainly with the teaching of the ways of conduct. As per the remark of the Nandi-satra, it contained previously Lord Mahavira's answers to the questions put by gods, Vidyadharas, monks, nuns and the Jain householders. At present it contains the description of the ways leading to transgression and the self-control. It is of the size of 200 Ślokas. Vipaka-sūtranga-sutra: It consists of 2 parts of learning. The first part is called the Fruition of miseries and depicts the life of 10 sinful souls, while the second part called the Fruition of happiness narrates illustrations of 10 meritorious souls. It is available of the size of 1200 Ślokas.
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II Twelve Upangas
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Uvavayi-sutra: It is a subservient text to the Acaranga-sutra. It deals with the description of Campă city, 12 types of austerity, procession-arrival of Konika's marriage, 700 disciples of the monk Ambaḍa. It is of the size of 1000 slokas.
(2) Rayapaseni-sutra: It is a subservient text to Suyagaḍanga-sutra. It depicts king Pradesi's jurisdiction, god Suryabha worshipping the Jina idols, etc. It is of the size of 2000 Ślokas.
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