Canonical Literature Of Jainas

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

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS ( CHAP. that sruta which exists in every tirtha-in short which is niyata, is anga-pavittha, and the rest of the gruta is ananga-pavitthg. It may be noted that Anandasāgara Sūri has recently propounded a view in Siddhacakra (IV, 8, p. 1752) that even a Gañadhara can be an author of the ananga-pavittha works, and thus Āvassaya, though coming under the class of ananga-pavittha, is a work composed by a Ganadhara. If this view is accepted, it follows that though the author of anga-pavittha is none else but a Ganadhara, the author of anangapavittha is a Ganadhara and a non-Ganadhara as well. Furthermore, in Siddhacakra (IV, 8, p. 175) he has said that ananga-pavittha may be also associated with a question from a Ganadhara. But this is an erroneous statement as can be seen from Malayagiri Sūri's com. (p. 48b) on Āvassaya where it is distinctly stated that ananga-pavittha has nothing to do with a question or questions of a Ganadhara, though it may be however the outcome of a question or questions from some one else or that without any body asking a question to a Tirthaikara, he himself may have expounded a subject, and later on, it may have been embodied in words by some devotee of his. As regards the genesis of anga-pavittha, there are no such options; for, it after all originates from the nişadyās and tripadī.4
1 "इच्चेतस्स सुतपुरिसस्स जं सुतं अंगभागठितं तं अंगपविलु भणइ, जं पुण एतस्सेव सुतपुरिसस्स वइरेगे ठितं अंगबाहिरं ति भण्णति, अहवा गणहरकयमंगगतं जं कतं थेरेहिं बाहिरं तं च । णियतं अंगपविट्ठ अणिययसुतं बाहिरं भणितं ॥"
-Cunyi (p. 47) on Nandi. The 550th verse of Visesāvassayabhāsa may be also referred to. It runs as under:
"गणहरथेरकयं वा आएसा मुक्कवागरणो वा । धुवचलविसेसओ वा अंगाणंगेमु नाणत्तं ।। ५५०॥" 2 For the pertinent portion see my Gujarāti work Arhata jigamonuń avalo
kana yane Tattvarasi kacandrikā (Pt. I, p. 63). 3 "वारत्रयं गणधरपृष्टेन सता भगवता तीर्थकरेण यत् प्रोच्यते 'उप्पनेइ वा, विगमेइ वा धुवेइ वा' इति पदत्रयं
तदनुसत्य यन्निष्पन्नं तदङ्गप्रविष्ट, यत् पुनर्गणधरप्रश्नव्यतिरेकेण शेषकृतप्रश्नपूर्वकं वा भगवतो मुत्कलं व्याकरणं तदधिकृत्य यनिष्पन्नं जम्बूप्रज्ञप्त्यादि, यच्च वा गणधरवचास्येवोपजीव्य दृब्धमावश्यकनियुत्तयादि पूर्वस्थ. विरैस्तदनङ्गप्रविष्टं यदि वा यत् सर्वतीर्थकरतीर्थेष्वनियतं तदनङ्गप्रविष्ट, सर्वपक्षेषु द्वादशाङ्गान्यङ्गप्रविष्ट, शेषमनङ्गप्रविष्टं" Maladbārin Hemacandra, too, has practically said the same thing as can be seen from the following lines of his com. (p. 298) on Visesīvassayabhāsa:
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