Canonical Literature Of Jainas

Author(s): H R Kapadia
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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thinking, and as if by way of sudden realization, the ideas had rushed past in his mind in the following vein:
“What can be the distinguishing feature of a substance (dravya)? Well, it must be sat, and what is sat? It is nothing but a simultaneous possession of birth, decay and permanence.! And what is permanence ? It means indestructibility of the essence or quality of the substance, though accidental qualities of this substance can and do undergo a modification.”
This realization of facts spurred him on to compose a dvādaśāngī, an act evolving out of the fructification or operation of Ganadhara-nāma-karman.
Before we proceed further and examine the question of other Ganadharas composing a avādaśāigi, we may note that each of the three questions asked by Indrabhūti, is styled as niscjjā in Prākrta3 and nişadya in Samsksta. Furthermore, all the three questions are collectively known as nişadyātraya in Samskrta. Similarly every answer that the Lord gare, goes by the name of pada or mātņkāpada in Sanskrta
1 Ci. "37919921 . HL”, the 29th sūtra of Tattvārthadhigamasastra
(adhyāya V) composed by Umāsvāti Vācaka:2 "76191044 faceta 1"-Tattvärtha (V, 30 )
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The Cunni (p, 370) on Avassaya and its Nijjutti (v. 735) may be here quoted as under:
"तं कहं गहित गोयमसामिणा ? तिविहं ( ? तीहिं ) निसेज्जाहिं चोद्दस पुवाणि उत्पादिताणि । निसेज्जा णाम पणवतिऊण जा पुच्छा।"
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See p. 8, fn. 4.
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See p. 3, fn. 4. Also see the following (last) line of the 2nd verse of Apāpāpurisan kşiptakalpa of Jinaprabha Sūri:
"3qrafurat H ogart a faggiato”. Kalpakiranävali (p. 120b) of Dharmasāgara Upādhyāya may be also referred to. Haribhadra Sūri in his com. (p. 7a) on Dasaveyūliya and its Nijjutti (v.8) says: “Ta H1791191, 1 991-309a ar' carf, 999efear समस्तनयवादबीजभूतानि मातृकापदानि भवन्ति, तद् यथा-उप्पन्नइ वा, विगमेइ वा, धुवेइ वा."
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