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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS [ CHAP. there is no name to be found in prosody and which is designated by K. H. Duruva as Gāthānustubhi samsrsti in virtue of its being a combination of Anustubh and Gathā, is used in both the uddesas of Thaparinnā and in the ending portions of some other ajjhnyanas as well. On p. 159, 3 verses are quoted from Sūyagad. They are: I, 4, 1, 4; I, 1, 3, 16; and I, 1, 8, 26. Out of these the 1st has its 1st and 3rd feet in Anustubh, the 2nd in Vrddhatarı güthika khrinda (18 mātrās ) and the 4th in Vrddha khandi (15 mātrās). As regards the remaining two verses, each has its 1st 3 feet in Anustubh whereas the 4th in Gāthika khanda of 15 and 18 matrās respectively. 1, 2, 3, 22' of Siyagada is in Jūgitānustubli saṁsrsti.
THANA I hāna is the 3rd Aiga. It is divided into ten sections known as ajjhayanas, with no specific names for them except Ekasthānaka, Dvisthānaka, Tristhānaka etc., up to Daśasthānaka-the names probably coined by Abhayadeva Sūri in his com. on this Thāna. Some of these sections have sub-sections known as uddesas. For instance, sections II, III, IV and V have 4, 4, 4 and 3 uddesas, whereas the rest have none. Nevertheless each section is divided into suttas.3 Their total number is 783.
The entire work is mostly in prose, and each section of it deals with objects according to their number, the maximum number going up to 10. In section III (s. 128) persons are divided into 3 classes, best, mediocre and worst, and these are each further subdivided into 3 sub-classes. In section VII, are mentioned 7 nayas (s. 552), 7 svaras or the notes of the musical scale (s. 553'), 7 1 In the edition used by K. H. Dhruva, it seems that this is written as if it
is in prose. So he modifies it slightly on p. 162n and turns it into a verse. 2 For corroboration see p. 21, fn. 1. At times ajjhayanas are called thānas,
See the end of V, i. 3 The very 1st sutta is: "U # 3713€! aoi 19741 hari 1” 4 Sutta 553 consists of several verses. 5 "यत्रैकादीनि पर्यायान्तराणि वर्ण्यन्ते तत् स्थानम्"
-Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 91 ) on Tattvärtha (1, 20) 6 Over and above the svaras, their sthānas, their generating organs animate and
inanimate, the fruits of singing the musical notes, their grāmas and marchanas,
