Canonical Niksepa

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

Page 70

ANALYSIS
AJÑANA-TRIAD
Bhagavati
Our quotation
Catch-word
sutra 8.2.321
8.2.321 8.2.321
No.35810 No.36911
MAI-ANNĀNE . SUYA-ANNĀŅE VI BHANGA-NĀNE
No. 37812
For the subject refer to p.151 below and to LELMANN, Übersicht, p.400.- As the jñānapentad occurs in two works, we had to supply doubl quotations in this case. The jñānapentad in Bhagavati inmediately precedes the ajñāna-triad of the same work, but we have supplied the Entries for the pentad from Nandi (which is later in the order of the canonical works, but more original with respect to this particular passage). Again we have followed the order of the five niksepas as given in Nandi. Further explanations can be dispensed with as the numbering of the charts follows the principles observed in the General Catalogue (Ch.2) on the one hand and the List of Entries (Ch.3) on the other. The page references for the eight Entries (and for the introductory passages preceding the pentad ard the triad at some distance) will be found at the respective places. The page references for Bhagavati 8.2.317 (introduction) and 8.2.321 (pentad plus triad) are the following: S.1, p.540 (ĀgS p. 342) and S.I, pp.545-46 (Āgs pp.356-).
913 (vss.6-7) is "irregular" in the sense that the text is metrical and connected with monastic discipline (a subject which is otherwise not found in the davvao area). In Bhagavati 11.10.419, 820B (davvao) follows $20A (davva-loga), hence the letters A and B in spite of the reversed order in our treatment (20B before $20A). 820B has no programme (and no introduction). The character of the catch-words suggests some relationship with the davva-loga type, but the treatment should be viewed in the context of the Nirāmukha area. Considering the position of davvao vis-à-vis davva-loga on the one hand and Niramikha on the other, classification as davvao seemed justifiable.
We shall now discuss the different subunits as enumerated on p.43 above. The problem of an introduction arises only in the case of $81-12 and 14-19. Again we consider in the davvao context exclusively questions immediately preceding the niksepa. These show the following "elements" (for the term "element" refer to p.59 below): - 991-4: "sa-anta/ananta"; 995-9: "kai-vanna, kai-gandha ..."; 9910-12 (plus Nos. 30-34 in Bhagavati, which differ in this respect from $914-17 and 19 in Nandī): "kevaiya visaya".
The programme. Apart from 985-(showing guna as their fifth determinant), all the davvao nikṣepas have the four standard determinants davva, khetta, kāla, bhāva. The catch-word is missing in almost all the programnes but was supplied by us in square brackets. The initial phrases ("elements") are the following: - 981-4: "evam khalu";