Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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nam (Abh) This title of the text refers to the older work, as it is supposed to have been, but the contents of which as stated in Sama vāya and Nandi, do not at all agree with the contents of the extant text This fact was noticed very early by Weber') Except in the matter of the three introductory gāthās addressed to Jambu (by Suhamma, in answer to Jambu's question, as we can presume from the analogy of other texts), there are no questions nor any answers in the whole of the present text These facts tend to show that the original text which the compilers of Thāna and Sama vāy a hat before them, was lost and another wholly different text was substituted in its place") Unlike those texts of the Canon which in their new form embody a part or the whole of their older form and contents, our present text contains nothing of the older one, it has been raised on an altogether different foundation)
The later origin of this text will be clear when we have fully examined it in course of this study, but inspite of its late origin there are one or two small details in it which would seem to point to an opposite conclusion Such, for instance, are
I the use of ti bemı at the end of eight of its chapters (1 e except chaps 2 and 5) which seems to relate our text to Angas 1-4 which begin with suyam me and close with ti bemi, and
II the appeal to the Nāya in such words as evam*) āhamsu Nāyakula-nandano mahappă jino u Vira-vara-nāmadhejjo at the end of the first five chapters, and eyam Nāya-muninā bhagavayā pannaviyanı etc at the end of the last five chapters, which recalls Anga 2, the Süyagada, - Nāya-putte Mahāvire evam āha jin’uttame 1 11 27 But we should not be misled by these, for, as has rightly
1) Ind Stud XVI, p 327 2) Weber, Ind Stud XVI, y 328–29, Schubring, Worte Ms , p 13
3) Aware that the extant text is very different from what its name sugs gests, Abh writes ajñā vayam, sāstram idam gabhiram, prāyo 'sya kūtānı ca pustakāni, and again, explanıng its title ayam ca vyutpatty-artho'sya pūrvaskāle 'bhūt, idānim ty aśrava-pañcaka-samvaraspañcaka-vyäkrtır evês hôpalabhyate
4) evam nāmadhejjo is a vedha of ten ganas, for the vedha metre and its comparatively later age, see below