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4. The Text starts by determining the place of the Avassaya Suya in the Jaina Canon, called suya-ṇāṇa. It is designated as an amgabahiraukkaliya
suya-khamdha, consisting of ajjhayanas.
caraṇa-,
Here the division of the scripture into kaliya and ukkaliya categories deserve atttention. Usually 'kaliya' means 'what is prescribed to be studied in the last quarter of the night and the first quarter of the day'.2 But from the Vavahara (sutta nos. 298ff.), it appears that the suttas which, for their study, required a monk to be of a definite standing in respect of the period of his monkhood were called kaliya, some of the Suttas mentioned here being common to the list of the kaliya Suttas of the Nandi (sutta no. 84). Further light on the nature of the kaliya Sutta is derived from the Avasyaka-Niryukti, verses 762 and 763, which define a kaliya Sutta as one where the nayas are not applied (muḍhanaiyam) for its elucidation, and assert that there was, however, period a when every kaliya, Sutta, including the was explained with reference to the four Anuyogas (viz. dharma-, samkhya-, and dravya-anuyoga) through the nayas-a method which continued till the times of Ajja Vaira whose disciple Ajja Rakkhia separated the four Anuyogas (ibid., 774) to serve the needs of the future generation of disciples feared to be of week intellect. Visesavasyaka-Bhasya, while distinguishing gamiya and agamiya, says that the agamiya which is composed in heterogeneous styles such as the gatha-verses and the like, is mostly kalika.* In another place, the Bhasya says that the kaliya-suya constitutes the first Anuyoga (viz. the caraṇakaraṇānuyoga) and the Mahakappasuya and the Cheasuya, being concerned with caraṇakaraṇānuyoga fall under the kaliya.5 The Commentators Acarya Haribhadra and Maladhārī Hemacandra here explain kalika as standing for the eleven Amgas, the reason being that they
The
1. Jinabhadra regards the Samaiya Ajjhayana (which is a part of the Avassaya Suya) as Kalika (vide VBh (A), Auto-Commentary on 915).
2. Commentary, p. 6A; divas a-nisa-prathama-carama-paurusi-likṣane
diyate nanyatre 'ti kalikam Uttaradhyayanādi; yattu kalavelāmātravarjam seṣakäläniyamena path yate tadut kālikam Avasyakādi.
3.
kāle'
4.
The reading gudha for mudha, noticed in the footnote 5 of the VBh (A) Part I, p. 177, appears correct. In this connection, one should mark the word Uniguhiya in the following verse:
sanuggaho 'nuoge visum kasi ya suyavibhāgena /
suhagah anäinimittam nae ya suniguhiyavibhage //-VBh (B), 2291.
VBh (A), Auto-Commentary on verse 546: gathadyasamānagrantham agamikam, tacca prayeņa kalikam.
5. VBh (B), 2294-5.
