Agam 26 Prakirnak 03 Maha Pacchakhana Sutra

Author(s): Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan

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PREFACE : LXXXV
63. (ii) Dhīrena vi maridavvam
şiddhīrena vi avassa maridavvam Jadi dohim pi maridavvami
varam hi dhīrattanena maridavvam ||
(Mūlācāra, verse 100.)
64. Edami paccakkhānam jo kāhadi maranadesayālammi || Dhïro amūdhasanno so gacchai uttamam thānam ||
(Mülācāra, verse 105.)“
In this comparative study, we find that out of 142 verses of Mahāpratyākhyāna Prakirnaka, four are found in the canonical works, eight in the Niryuktis. eight in the Bhāsyas and besides the Maranavibhakti, sixty of its verses are also found in other Prakirnakas. As far as Saurasení canon equivalent works of Yapanīya tradition are concerned, forty-five verses of Mahāpratyākhyāna are found in Mülācāra and Bhagavati-ārādhanā. In the main sacred texts of Yāpanīya tradition - Mūlācāra and Bhagavati-ārādhanā - not only the verses of Mahāpratyākhyā na, but of many other Prakirnakas have been absorbed as such except the linguistic changes from Ardhamāgadhi to Sauraseni. Absorption of most of the verses of Avaśyaka Niryukti and all those of Aturapratyākhyāna shows that in the beginning the Prakirnakas were acceptable to the Yāpanīya tradition, but in the later period when the works like Mülācāra and Bhagavatiārādhanā, had been written based on the verses of the Niryuktis and the Prakirnakas, the tradition of their studies lost its importance and hence, discontinued. In the Digambara literature
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In spite of some difference in words, there is a similarity of meaning here.