Canonical Literature Of Jainas

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

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
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generally introduced by the words aria ga, of which a typical example is furnished by the following lines occurring in Pajjosanākappa (s. 147):
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Practically the entire Jaina canonical literature was written according to the version of the Mathura council, as a connected link. I use the word practically to denote that Joisakarunduga is based upon the Valabhi version. (v) Several cannas which were occurring in more than
one Agama were written out at full length only once, and then they were not reproduced ad verbatim, a second time, but only a reference
was made to them
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" समणस्स भगवओ महावीरस्स जाव सव्वदुक्खप्पहीणस्स नव वासयाई विश्कताई, दसमस्स य वाससयस्स अयं असीइमे संवच्छरे काले गच्छर, वायणंतरे पुण अयं तेणउए संवच्छर इइ दीसइ ".
'नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति एवं खलु० ।" - Tikit (p. 245 ) on Ayara 'नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति - समणा भविस्सामो० – Ibid., p. 253
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In the latter case there was a reference to the Nagarjuniya school.'
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'नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति - जे खलु० ।”
'नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति-पुट्ठो वा० ।"
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" अत्रांतरे नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति सो ऊण तयं उवट्टियं० ।" - Zika (p. 64 ) on Süyaugada
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नागार्जुनीयास्तु पठन्ति - पलिमंथमहं वियाणिया० । " Ibid, p. 64
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Vanna (Sk. varnaka) means a description. This word is placed after any one of the following words or the like of which the description is to be supplied from the foregoing portion or another work:
A city, a sanctuary, a great forest, trees, a dais of earthen blocks, Jambu, Mahavira, a king, a queen, a dream, a gymnasium and the physi cal exercises, a bath-house, an audience-chamber, a palace and a procession.
It may be noted in this connection that at times legends related after a stereotyped pattern are often represented in the Jaina canon as a mere skeleton which the reader is left to fill in with set words and phrases like clichés. As observed in A His. of Ind. Lit. (vol. II, p. 450, fn. 3) "we find something similar in the canon of the Sarvästivädins." Furthermore, there on p. 280, fn. it is said: "Clichés of the same kind, also occur in the Bengali poems, s. Dinesh Chandra Sen, History of Bengali language and literature, p. 585 f."