Canonical Literature Of Jainas

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

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THE EXTINCT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
Jaina Sädhus with two attendants for every one of them, came to Nepal and tried to prosecute their studies. But all except Sthūlabhadra left the place as they could not face this situation.! He (Sthūlabhadra), too, could not completely master all the 14 Puvous as for some reason or other Bhadrabāhusvāmin withheld the ineaning of the last four Purvas from him. Thus the meaning of the last 4 Puvuas got lost in Vira Samvat 170, the year in which Bhadraba husvämin died. Later on, with the death of Sthūlabhadra, even the verbal embodiment of these four Puvvas came to an end, as he was debarred from teaching them to others. Then, for some time at least, there flourished persons who were conversant with the first ten Puvvas, Vajrasvāmin being the last in the lot. After his svargagamana, there remained none who knew all the ten Puvvas in toto. Āryarakṣita Sūris who survived him, knew at least 9 Puvvas plus 24 javiyas of the 10th 1 "उज्जुत्ता मेहावी, सद्धाए वायणं अलभमाणा ।
अह ते थोबा थोवा, सव्वे समणा विनिस्सरिया ॥ ७४१ ॥ एको नवरि न मुंचति, सगडालकुलस्स जसकरो धीरो।
नामेण थूलभद्दो, अविहीसाधम्मभद्दो त्ति ॥ ७४२ ॥"-Tilthogaliya 2 "अह भणइ थूलभदो अण्णं रूवं न किंचि काहामो।
इच्छामि जाणिउ जे अहमं चत्तारि पुवाई ।। ८०० ।। नाहिसि तं पुवाई सुयमेत्ताई विमुग्गहा हिंति (?) दस पुण ते अणुजाणे जाण पणाई चत्तारि ।। ८०१ ।। एतेण कारणेण उ पुरिसजुगे अट्ठमम्मि वीरस्स ।।
सयराहेण पणट्ठाई जाण चत्तारि पुवाई ।। ८०२ ॥"-Ibid. 3 For his life see Avassayacunni (pt. I, pp. 397-415). He died in Vira
Samval 584, the very year when a schism named "A baddhaditthi' arose in Dasapura. But according to Vālabhi Therāvali, he died in Vira Sanvat 597. It may be noted in passing that this furnishes us with an example of the difference of 13 years in calculations in the case of the Skāndilīya
and Nagarjuniya schools. See p. 68. 4 In Avassayacuuni (pt. I, p. 404) it is said:
"अचिरेण नव पुव्वाणि अधिताणि, दसममाढत्तो घेत्तुं, ताथे अजवहरा भणंति-जवियाई करेहि, एयं परिकम्ममेयस्स, ताणि य सुहुमाणि, गाढं गणिते तं सुहुमं, चउवीस जविया, सो वि ताव तं अज्झाइ।"
Cf. the following lines occurring in Hemacandra's com. (p. 1003) on Visesăvassayabhāsa (v. 2509): –
"शेषस्तु आर्यवैरस्वामिनः समीपेऽधीतो यावद् नव पूर्वाणि, तथा चतुर्विशतियविकानि । In Prabhavakacaritra (II, v. 117), there is mention of nine and a half Puvvas, and this very thing is noted there in the case of Aryānandila, too.
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