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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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It may not be amiss to note that the three works viz. Ceżyavandanabhāsa, Guruvandanabhāsa and Paccakkhānabhāsa collectively known as Bhāsyatraya and Ceżyavandanamahābhāsa' are not commentaries, though the ending word Bhāsa occurring there seems to suggest that. It is however true that each of them is a small work written in Prākrta in gāthās.
As regards Tīkās i. e. the Samskrta commentaries on the Agamas, it may be said that there is at least one com. for almost every Agama. Further, all the Samskặta commentaries are not available now, and Haribhadra Sūri's commentaries are the first amongst the extant ones. That this Sūri had written two commentaries on Avassaya and that the extinct com., was bigger than the available one, is an inference one can draw from its v. 2.2 He refers to one of these in his com. on Dasaveyaliya (pp. 24-4") as Adaśyakavisesavivarana. He has commented upon Jīvajīvabhigama', Pannavanā, Pindanijjutti-, Nandi and Anuogaddāras, too.
Next to him comes Silānka Sūri (Śilācārya) alias Tattvāditya. He had commented upon the 1st 9 Angas as stated in Prabhāvakacaritra’; but, now-a-days his tīkās on only Ayāra and 1 This is a work by śānti Sūri who has not been identified up till now. 2 "यद्यपि मया तथाऽन्यैः कृताऽस्य विवृतिस्तथापि: सडक्षेपात् । तदचिसत्त्वानुग्रहहेतोः क्रियते प्रयासोऽयम् ॥"
From this it follows that persons other than Haribhadra Sūri had commented upon Avassaya. One of them is probably Jinabhata. 8 See Catalogue of Mss. at Jesalmere (p. 18 ). 4 See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. III, p. 484 ). 5 In the com. (p. 22) on this, Avaśyakavivarana and Nandivisesavivaraņa are
mentioned. These seem to be his own works. 6 "निवृतिकुलीनश्रीशीलाचार्यण तत्त्वादित्यापरनाम्ना वाहरिसाधुसहायेन कृता टीका परिसमाप्तेति"
-Ayāra with ţikā (p. 3172) Some identify this Tattvāditya with Tattvācārya, the dikşāguru of Ud. dyotana Sūri who completed Kuvalayamālā when one day of Saka 700 was to elapse. This view is criticized by Anandasāgara Sūri in his Samskrta
intro. (pp. 3-4) to Part II of Visesão edited with Kotyācārya's com. 7 See Abhayadevasūripra bandha (v. 104-105). This statement seems to be
unreliable. For, Abhayadeva Sūri in his com. (p. 1) on I hāna says: "विविधायरत्नसारस्य देवताधिष्ठितस्य विद्याक्रियाबलवताऽपि पूर्वपुरुषेण कुतोऽपि कारणादनुन्मुद्रितस्य...... FIITTTH *4......Johaufhargütt: 41 à 1" Besides Jinavallabha Sūri, too, says in Astasaptatika that there are no commentaries on ? hāna etc. composed by the Sūris of olden days.
