Canonical Literature Of Jainas

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

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GENESIS OF THE JAINA SCRIPTURES
and all collectively, by the name of tripadī' or padatrayza or the like.
It appears that we have no means to know the number of nişadyās pertaining to the remaining 10 Gañadharas; but it is certain that at least one of them had a recourse to fifteen nişadyās. This shows that this particular Ganadhara, at least, was rather backward in intelligence as compared with Indrabhūti; or else why should he have been obliged to put such a big number of ques. tions as 15 ? Furthermore, we do not know the actual answers given by Lord Mabāvīra by way of replies to these 15 nişadyās; but it seems highly probable that tripadī might have played therein the main part, if not the sole part,
As already said on p. 3, on the whole, 11 dvādasāngīs were composed by 11 Ganadharas, one by each of them. It, however, so happened that the dvādaśāngīs of the Eth and the 9th Gañadharas not only tallied in meaning, but even in the compilation of words, and so did the dvādaśāngīs of the 10th and the 11th Gañadharas.5
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See the following verse of Dhanapāla's Tilakamanjari:
__ " नमो जगन्नमस्याय मुनीन्द्रायेन्द्रभूतये। यः प्राप्य त्रिपदी वाचा विश्वं विष्णुरिवानशे ॥१९॥" Muniratna's Amamacaritra, Devānanda Sūri's Gautamaştaka (v. 2), Lakşmivallabha's Kalpadrumakalikā (p. 1412 and p. 1416 ) and Vinayavijaya Upādhyāya's Subodhikà (p. 1182) may be also consulted. See the following verse of Trișaști (1, 3):
"उत्पादो विगमो ध्रौव्यमिति पुण्यां पदत्रयीम् । उद्दिदेश जगन्नाथः सर्ववाङ्मयमातृकाम् ॥६५८॥"
Devendra Sūri, too, has used this word in his com. (v. 1) on his own work Kammavivāga (v. 60). I do not remember to have noted a Prāksta equivalent of tripadi like tivai, in the Jaina literature.
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The following lines from the Cunni (p. 337) on Avassaya may be here consulted:"जदा य गणहरा सव्वे पव्वजिता ताहे किर एगनिसेज्जाए एगारस अंगाणि चोइसहिं चोद्दस पुवाणि, एतं ता भगवतो अत्थो कहितो, ताहे भगवंतो एगपासे सुत्तं करंति, तं अक्खरेहिं पदेहि वंजणेहि समं"
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Cf. Trisasti (x, 5):" एवं रचयतां तेषां सप्तानां गणधारिणाम् । परस्परमजायन्त विभिन्नाः सूत्रवाचनाः ॥१७३॥ अकम्पिताऽचलाभात्रोः श्रीमेतार्य-प्रभासयोः। परस्परमजायन्त सदृक्षा एव वाचनाः ॥१७४॥"