Canonical Literature Of Jainas

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

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THE EXTINCT ACAMAS OT THE JAINAS No information is available regarding the contents of any one of these. We may however note that herein we find names which remind us of the two nayas viz, Evambhūta and Samabhirūdha.
The 22 Suttas are chinnacchetlanayika for svasamayikas whereas they are acchinnacchedanayikus for the Ājāvagas. Further, they are trikanayikas for the Terasiyas, while they are catuṣkanayikas for svasamayikus. According to the chinnacchedanaya, all the sūtras of the Agamas are independent of one another i.e. to say the preceding one has nothing to do with the subsequent one or ones nor has the subsequent one anything to do rith the preceding one or ones. Reverse is the case according to the acchinnacchedanaya which believes that the preceding and following sūtras are inter-connected i, e. to say they are not independent of one another.
The four view-points from which 22 Suttas can be seen and which are just mentioned, give us 88 varieties of this section in all.
Purprigaya-This is fourteen-fold inasmuch as it consists of the following 14 Puvvas :
(1) Uppāya, (2) Aggānīya, (3) l'iriü, ( 4 ) Atthinathippavāya, (5) Nānappavāya, ( 6 ) Saccappavāya, (7) Āyappavāya, (8) Kammappavāya, (9) Procerikkhānapparāya, (10) Vijjānuppavāya', (11) Avañjha, (12) Pāņāii, (13) Kiriārisāla and (14) Lokabindusāra.
These names are here given according to the Nandi (s. 57). In Pavayaņasāruddhāra (dvāra 92), we come across almost these very names except that for Kammappaviya, we have Samayappavāya and for Lokabindusāra, Bindusāra. For contents according to the Śvetāmbara point of view, one may refer to the Cunni ( pp. 57–58) on Nandī, Abhayadeva Sūri's com. (p. 131a and p. 131b) on Samavāya, Siddhasena Gani's Tīki (pp. 207–208) on Pavayanasāruddhāra etc.? From these sources we learn: The 1st Puvva deals with the origin of all the dravyas and paryāyas; the 2nd, with their measurements (parimāņa); the 3rd, with the potentialities-powers of the animate and inanimate objects; the 1 For a variant see p. 90. 2 A list of the names of the 14 Puvvas along with their contents is found
in the Digambara works, too, e. g. in Tattvartharäjavārtika (pp. 51-53).