Canonical Niksepa

Author(s): Bansidhar Bhatt
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan

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THE CANONICAL NIKSEPA
Entries include three blocks:
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(= Bhagavati 2.1.90) (= Bhagavati 2.10.117) (= Bhagavati 8.2.321)
Such a block is the result of repeated employment of the same patter and shows little internal variation. Again, five of the six examples taken from Nandi are inutually related (9914-17, 19), although they do not show the full characteristics of a block (contiguity and minimal variation). 918 (also Nandī) stands alone. 9913 (Uttarādhyayana) and 20B (Bhagavati) are irregular in one way or the other. The arrangement of our Entries follows on the whole the usual order of the canonical works.
The five related nikseras from Nandi form what we call the jñāna-pentad, and this is also found in the Bhagavati. However, in the latter work the five niksepas were made contiguous and another group of three niksepas (an ad hoc composition - the "ajñānatriad'') was added. The ajñāna-triad immediately follows the jñāna-pentad:
JNANA-PENTAD
Nandi
Bhagavati
Catch-word
Our quotation of the Nandi nikṣepas
Our quotation of the Bhagavati nikseras
Logical sequence (= sequence in Bhagavati)
sutra 16
3rd 4th
No.6614 No.68815 No.69$16 No.70817 No.72819
sutra 8.2.321 8.2.321 8.2.321 8.2.321 8.2.321
No. 32 No. 33 No. 34 No. 30 No. 31
OHI -NĀNAM NANA-PAJJAVA-NANAN KEVALA-NĀNAM ĀBHINI BOHIYA-NĀNAN SUYA-NĀŅAN
2nd