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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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come across quotations in Samskṛta' and Praчrta and differences of opinion3 regarding philosophical topics. On p. 274 we have: " तदन्यत्राभिहितं शेषं दशवैकालिकचूर्णौ अभिहितं ". This Dasaveyaliyacunni may or may not be belonging to this very author. If it is his work it follows that Dusaveyaliyacunni was composed by him before he composed Uttarajjhayanacunni.
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Abhayadeva Suri has used a Cunni and a com. on Viahapannatti while commenting upon it.4
On Kappa there are two anonymous Cunnis. to Jaina Granthavali (p. 12), one of them is Pralamba Suri.
Vavahāracunni narrates an episodes pertaining to King Gardabhilla and Kalaka Suri wherein the latter succeeds in relieving his sister Sarasvati, a nun from this king who had abducted her, and in dethroning this king. In its 8th section it is stated that Arya Rakṣita Suri gave permission to the Jaina clergy to keep a matraka (a kind of small vessel) during the rainy season.
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Dasusuyakkhandhacunni is anonymous, and it mentions Siddhasena (Divakara). See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 70).
Jiyakappacunni, a Prakṛta work of Siddhasena Sūri, is mostly in prose. From p. 19, 11. 20-216 and p. 23, 1. 227 it follows that some one else also had composed a Cunni on Jiyakappa; but it seems that this is now lost. The extant Cunni explains the five varieties of vyavahara with their sub-varieties, gives etymologies and synonyms of some words (vide pp. 4-5, 28 and 30) and explains a rule of Prakṛta grammar on p. 2.8 This Cunni mentions some works as well. Out of them Pindanijjutti (p. 14) and Jonipahuḍa (p. 28) may be here noted. On p. 17, there is a refe
1 See pp. 26, 30, 65, 152, 206, 223-224, 225 etc.
2 See p. 198, 225, 230 etc.
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See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. I, p. 86).
5 This episode and the transference of the date of the paryuṣanaparvan are mentioned in Nisihacunni.
“ बिइयचुन्निकारमएण पोत्थयपणगे विपुरिमढुं ।”
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" अहवा बितियचुन्निकाराभिप्पाएण चत्तारि वि सुत्तेणेव गहिया ।"
" पायए चकारस्स छकारो लक्खणिओ ।"
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3 See pp. 145-146 etc.
