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GENESIS OF THE JAINA SCRIPTURES
ples, as some say, are not necessarily the Pratyekabuddhas;t but whatever it may be, we have no means to know exactly which works were composed by them. The works styled as Prakīrṇakas and enumerated under the two groups known as kāliya-suya? and ukkāliya-suya: are perhaps some of the works composed by these Pratyekabuddhas. Whether it is so or not, their genesis will be taken up hereafter.
(2) As stated in Pajjosaņākappa (s. 147)4 and in Trişasti (X, 13, v. 223-2245), Lord Mahāvīra when he was about to attain nirvāṇa, recited 55 adhyayanas dealing with the fructification of punya (merit), 55 pertaining to the fructification of pāpa (demerit), 36 though unasked, and one more named as Pahāņa? (Sk. Pradhāna). We do not know whether he did or did not inform the audience as to whose compositions they were, Hence the problem before us, of deciding their authorship. Roughly speaking, we may attribute the authorship of all these 147 adhyayanas to Lord Mahāvīra; but even then the question as to whether any one of these adhyayanas is incorporated in the existing canon, remains practically unsolved.
1 See the ending portion of fn. 1 of p. 18. 2-3 See pp. 23–24. 4 The pertinent lines are as under :
"छद्रेणं भत्तेणं अपाणएण साइणा नक्खत्तेणं जोगमुवागएणं पच्चूसकालसमयंसि संपलिअंकनिसण्णे पणपन्नं अज्झयणाई कलाणफलविवागाई पणपन्नं अज्झयणाई पावफलविवागाई छत्तीसं च अपुट्ट
वागरणाई वागरित्ता पहाणं नाम अज्झयणं विभावेमाणे २ कालगए" 5 They are
: कल्याणफलपाकानि पञ्चपञ्चाशतं तथा। तावन्त्यधविपाकानि जगावध्ययनानि तु ।। २२३॥ . .
षट्त्रिंशतमप्रश्नव्याकरणान्यभिधाय च। प्रधानं नामाध्ययनं जगद्गुरुरभावयत् ॥ २२४ ॥" 6 One may be tempted to belive that some of the ajjhayaņas of Vivāgasuya,
the latter portion of Ovaväiya and the like may have something to do with
some of these 110 adhyanas. 7 This is explained in Subodhikā (p. 125b) as below:
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