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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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BHATTAPARINNĀ This work "dispensing with food” consists of 173 gāthās in Prāksta. It recommends bhattaparinnamarana' and deals with ethical precepts. The word bhattaparinna along with candagave;jha occur in v. 807 of Ohanijjutti.
SANTHĀRAGA This work "the pallet of straw” consisting of 121 gāthas or so points out the importance of samstāraka and praises those who rightly resort to it. It contains references pertaining to Arņikā. putra, Sukošala Rsi, Cāņakya, Gajasukumāla and others who gave up attachment to body etc. and attained final emancipation. It may be noted that an attempt to collect references about narratives, legendary anecdotes etc., was made by Kurt von Kamptz in his monograph "über die vom Sterbefasten handelnden älteren Païnna des Jaina-Kanons", Hamburg, 1929. Though this and other Païnnas above-referred to deal with rules for a death befitting the sage, they are none the less didactic poems, contain sermons, and "make use of plays on numbers and all kinds of figures of ornate poetry.”
TANDULAVEYĀLIYA This work is styled as Payannaya just in the beginning of this work. It is referred to as Tandulavicāranā by Maladharin Hemacandra Sūri in his commentary (p. 5a) on Anuogaddūrasutta. It is mostly in verses, their number being about 125. The main topics dealt with, herein are as under:
Embryology, food in the embryonic condition, births as a celestial being and a hellish being, 10 conditions of a living being), description of the yugmins, 6 types of osseous structure, and those of the shape of the body, condemnation of woman and resort to dharma.
1 Death forms a subject-matter of several other Painnagas viz. Santharaga,
Aurapaccakkhana, Mahäpaccakkhana and Maranasamahi. 2 See A His. of Ind. Lit. (vol. II, p. 460). 8 The pertinent verse is the same as v. 10 of Dasaveyaliyanijjutti. It runs:
"बाला १ किड्डा २ मंदा ३ बला ४ य पन्ना ५ य हायणि ६ पवंचा ७। पन्भारा ८ मुम्मुही ९ मायणी १० य दसमा य कालदसा ।।३।।"
