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THE EXTANT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
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have sub-divisions styled as uddesas', and these, too, are further divided into suttas. Abhayadeva Sūri observes in his com. (p. 8) on this work that it has 10,000 uddes'akas, 36,000 praśnas? and 2,88,000 padas. But, in Samavāya (s. 140 ) and Nandi ( s. 49 ) the numbers for the padas are given as 84,000 and 1,44,000 respectively.
As regards the subject-matter), various topics are discussed in this work. But, since there seems to be no inter-connection between the uddesas of one and the same saü, much less between those of the different saäs, we find that for getting a complete view of any one topic, we have often to refer to different uddesas of the various saüs. Śräbhagavatīsāra, a chāyānuvāda prepared by Mr. G. J. Patel, however, solves this difficulty; for, he has re-arranged the suttas and grouped them according to the subject they deal with. In doing so, he has divided the work into 10 khandas with their respective titles as under:
Sādhana, caritra, siddhānta, anyatūrthika, vijñāna, ganita, kutuhala, deva, nāraku and anyajīva, with the word khanda added to each of them.
1 Saäs 1 to 8, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 and 20 lave each 10 uddesas, the 9th and
the 10th bave each 34, the 11th 12, 15th none, 16th 14 and 17th 17. Saäs 21 to 41 have the number of their uddesas as under:
80 (8 vaggas), 60 ( 6 vaggas), 50 (5 vagga), 24, 12, 11 (thānas), 11, 11, 11, 11, 28, 28, 124, 124, 132, 132, 132, 132, 132, 231 and 196. The saäs 33 and 34 have each 12 avantarasaäs, and saüs 35 to 40 have each 12 mahaTummasaüs.
The significant titles of almost all these uddesas are mentioned in vorse, mostly in the beginning of each of the saäs, and the corresponding verse is styled as sangrahanigāthā (vide the beginning of the com. of the 6th saä). Most of these praśnas are asked by Indrabhūti Gautama to Lord Mahăvira; for, only at times we find that his other pupils Agnibhūti, Vāyubhūti, Manditaputra, Mākandiputra and Roha, Jayanti, a Srāvikā, and some non-Jainas ask him a question. In the answers given to these questions by Lord Mahāvīra we come across a queur case (XVIII., 3; s. 619) where Gautama is addressed instead of Mākandiputra, though the answer is in connection with the question asked by the latter. This is due to an answer being here reproduced from
Pannavara (XV, 1). Vide its com. (p. 742a). 3 "व्याख्यायन्ते जीवादिगतयो यत्र नयद्वारेण प्ररूपणाः क्रियन्ते सा व्याख्याप्रज्ञप्तिः।"
-Siddhasena Gaņi's com. (p. 91) on Tattvårtha (I, 20)
