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Nandi Sootra
landhidhari, the ascetics who became Siddhas, the way they showed the path of liberation, the period of fasting, the places and periods of fasting, and the great ascetics who got liberated from the darkness of ignorance and acquired the ultimate bliss of liberation. Besides these there are some other topics also included in this Mool Prathamanuyog.
This concludes the description of Mool Prathamanuyog.
COMMENTARY The yoga (combination) that is according to the fundamentals or the propagated truth is called anuyog. That which compiles biographies that conform to the philosophy or principles or are used as example to vivify these is named Mool Prathamanuyog.
Mool Prathamanuyog has complete details of the passage of Tirthankars towards purity of soul. It starts with the earlier birth in which the direction of their life changed; acquiring samyaktva they proceeded on the path of purification of soul.
Question - What is this Gandikanuyog?
Answer - In Gandikanuyog are discussed and propagated - Kulkar Gandika, Tirthankar Gandika, Chakravarti Gandika, Dashar Gandika, Baldev Gandika, Vasudev Gandika, Ganadhar Gandika, Bhadrabahu Gandika, Tapokarma Gandika, Harivamsh Gandika, Utsarpint Gandika, Avasarpini Gandika, -Chitrantar Gandika, and births in genuses of gods, human beings, animals, hell beings, etc., cycles of rebirth and other such gandikas.
This concludes the description of Gandikanuyog, this conc]udes the description of Anuyog.
COMMENTARY -Gandika means knot. That in which history is divided, like knots in sugar-cane or bamboo, subject-wise, sequence-wise, or period-wise, is named Gandikanuyog. As a sugar-cane is divided by knots, if we divide the span of time by periods of Tirthankars the intervening periods are filled with the history ofnumerous great individuals. Gandikanuyog contains the stories of many past and future incarnations of all these.
5. CHULIKA Question - What is this Chulika?
Answer - The first four Purvas have Chulikas and the remaining is without them.
This concludes the description of Chulika.
COMMENTARY -Chulika or chula means the peak or pinnacle of a mountain. This is generally counted separately from the base and body of a mountain. In the same way the extra material, other than the basic text, included in a scripture is called Chultka. In other words the extra material related to the basic text and given as appendix and/or addendum is called Chulika.
CONCLUSION OF DRISHTIVADANG
Drishtivad has limited vachana (readings, lessons, compilations, editions). It has countable anuyogadwar, countable Verses, countable couplets, countable prattpattis, countable niryukti (parsing), and countable sangrahanis.
This Drishtivad is twelfth among the Angas. It has one shrutskandha (part), fourteen purvas, countable vastus, countable prabhrit, countable prabhrit-prabhrit, countable prabhritikas, and countable prabhritika-prabhritikas Measured in pad (sentence units) it has countable thousand pad. It has countable alphabets, infinite gum (meanings) and infinite paryaya (variations).
Aagam- 44 -NandiSootra
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Compiled by- Deepratnasagar
