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THE EXTANT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS younger to Dhammapadama situation no scholar can approve of. On p. 174 he concludes this topic by saying that the canonical literature (suttasāhitya) of the Jainas is as old as that of the Bauddhas, and to be more exact, it seems that some of the suttas of Suttanipāta' are anterior to and some are posterior to those of Ayāra and Süyagada whereas some are even contemporaneous with those of these Jaina works.?
SŪYAGADA Suyagada-This is the 2nd Anga having 3 titles as noted on p. 53. It is divided into 2 suyakkhandhas. Out of them the 1st has 16 ajjhayanas, whereas the 2nd 7. Thus, in all there are 23 ajjhayanas. But, only the 1st 5 ajjhayanas and those, too, of the 1st suyakkhandha only, have uddesas, their respective numbers being 4, 3, 4, 2 and 2; the rest have no uddesas whatsoever. The 1st suyakkhandha has all its ajjhayaņas except the 16th (last) entirely in verses, But, so far as the 2nd suyakkhandha is concerned, it has its 1st 2 ajjhayanas, the 4th and the 7th wholly in prose whereas the 3rd in prose with 4 verses almost at the end, and the 5th and the 6th entirely in verse. ૧ “પદ્યબંધની કસોટી સૂચવે છે કે એ સંગ્રહને વિષ્ણુભાનુભી સંસૃષ્ટિમાં રચાયેલાં સુત્ત
વાળો ભાગ આચાર અને સૂયગડથી કંઇક જુનો જણાય છે; અને કૈકાલિક કુટુંબ સાથે સંબંધ ધરાવતો ભાગ ઉક્ત જૈન અંગાથી અર્ધી સદી માટે રચાયેલો સંભવે છે. સંપૂર્ણ આર્યા એમાં ઉપલબ્ધ નથી તે કારણથી પ્રસ્તુત બૌદ્ધ સુત્ત શય્યભવ મુનિના દસ
a111444? Mar 3113914 3.”-1bid., p. 174 ૨ “સુત્તનિપાતમાં કેટલાંક સુત્ત આચાર અને સૂયગડ અંગ પહેલાનાં, કેટલાંક તે બેના
40241 242 24is 273 ell A1 . Ibid,, p. 174 3 I do not know if there is any source which mentions the specific names
of both of these sections. From Silanka's com. (p. 8a) on Süyagada we see that the 1st section is named as Gathaşodaşaka (Pr. Gahäsoda
saya), i. e. one of which Gahā is the 16th aijhayaņa. 4 Of, the following verse of Süyagadanijjutti :
"दो चव सुयक्खन्धा अज्झयणाई च होन्ति तेवीसं। तेत्तिसुद्देसणकाला आयाराओ दुगुणमङ्गं ॥ २२॥" 5 They are in different metres such as Anuştup, Vaitaliya etc. Prof. Jacobi
in 2. D. M. G. (vol. XXXVIII, 593 and vol. XLV, 101 ) has noted that Vaitāliya stanzas and Yamakas occur.
