Basic Principles Of Jainism

Author(s): Narayan Lal Kachhara
Publisher: Narayan Lal Kachhara

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In the absence of authentic scriptures, Digambaras follow two main texts, Satkhand Agam and Kashaya Pahud, three commentaries on main texts, and four Anuyogs consisting of more than 20 texts as the basis for their religious philosophy and practices. The Satkhand-agama is also known as Maha-kammapayadi-pahuda or Maha-karma-prabhrut. The text contains six volumes. Acharya Virsena wrote two commentary texts, known as Dhavala-tika on the first five volumes and Maha-dhavala-tika on the sixth volume of this scripture. Acharya Gunadhara wrote the Kashaya-pahud. The fifth Purva-agama named Jnana-pravada was used as a basis for this scripture. Acharya Virsena and his disciple, Jinsena wrote a commentary text known as Jaya-dhavala-tika.
The scriptural texts in this tradition are classified in four Anuyogas. The four Anuyogas are 1) Pratham anuyoga (PA), 2) Charan anuyoga (CA), 3) Karan anuyoga (KA), and 4) Dravya anuyog (DA). Some important texts are
Mulachara by Vattaura (CA) Ratna Karanda Shravakschara by Samantbhadra (CA) Gommat sara by Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti (KA) Tattvartha Sutra by Umaswami and its commentaries by Samantbhadra, Pujyapad, Akalanka, Vidyananda (DA) Panchastikaya, Pravachansara, Samayasara by Kundakunda (DA) Aptamimansa by Samantbhadra and its commentaries by Akalanka, Vidyananda (DA)