Book Title: Agam 26 Prakirnak 03 Maha Pacchakhana Sutra
Author(s): Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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________________ PREFACE : XII The above-mentioned classification, found in the Nandisūtra, mentions only nine Prakirnakas in all under the Kālika or Utkālika sūtras. Of these two names - Rsībhăsita and Dvīpasāgara-prajñapti are found under the classification of Kālika Āgamas or the timely studiable canonical texts and the rest seven - Devendrastava, Tandulavaicārika, Candrakavedhyaka, Ganīvidyā, Maranavibhakui, Aturapratyākhyāna and Mahāpratyākhyāna - are found under the Utkālika Agamas or the anytime studiable scriptures. This classification, thus mentions the Mahāpratyākhyāna Prakirnaka as the seventh Prakīrnaka or the twenty-eighth sūtra in the Utkālika category. Though the style of classification adopted in the Pāksikasūtra is somewhat different in respect of names and the order, there too the Mahāpratyākhyāna-Prakirnaka appears at the twenty-eighth position among the Utkālika sūtras only. Besides these, we find another ancient style of classifying Agamas in Mülācāra, a Sauraseni Agama of the Yāpanīya tradition. Mūlācāra divides the Āgamās into four categories + - 1. Prophet preached (Tīrtharkara kathita), 2. Self-enlightened preached (Pratyekabuddha kathita), 3. Canon-omniscient composed (Śrutakevali kathita) and 4. Those composed by the masters or elders learned in Pürvas (Pūrvadhara kathita). Again, in Mūlācara, these canonical texts have been classified as timely studiable - Kālika and any time studiable - Utkālika. However, the Mahāpratyā"hyāna-Prakīrnaka has not been 3 (a) Nandisutra, Ed. Muni Madhukara, Āgama Prakāśana Samiti, Beawar, 1982, pp 161-162. (b) Pāksikasūtra, Devacandra Lālbhai Jain Putakoddhara Fund, p. 76. Mūlācāra, Bhāratīya Jñānapītha, verse 277. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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