Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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been observed by Weber1), they were purposely inserted in the text in order to give it an ancient flavour) The Panhāvāgaranāım is not the only instance of a new text entirely supplanting an old one3), it is no new thing in the history of Jaina literature for texts to be lost or for new substitutes to replace old texts or for accretions to grow around older material specially deserving mention in this connection is the Ditthivaya, reputed to have been the 12th Anga, which is now entirely lost, and the present form of the second <rutaskandha entitled Dhammakahã of the 6th Anga, as also the growth of the second śrutaskandha, entitled Suha-viväga of the 11th Anga1)
As to what might probably have been the character and contents of the older 10th Anga, we have no means of knowing Judging from the fact that it has been mentioned by the 3rd Anga among the dasão texts, it is likely that it was of a legendary character like its predecessors Angas 7-9 and its successor Anga 115) Although at present it has another mode of introduction, Abhayadeva, the commentator, notes that pustakântare punar evam upodghātagrantha upalaksyate - and then he sets out in full the usual introduction to Angas 7-9 and 11 beginning with tenam kālenam tenam samaenam Campā nāmam nagari hotthā, the arrival of the venerable Suhamma at Campa, the curiosity of the venerable Jambu to learn the contents of Anga 10, his going up and putting a question to this effect to Suhamma who in reply describes the structural contents) of the text and finally enters into expounding the first chap
1) Ind Stud XVI p 331
2) This tendency is noticed also in the redactors of the Mahänisiha.sutta (see Schubring, Das Mahänisiha sutta p 8) which is called the second, and sometimes the sixth, Cheda-sutta this is a late work which probably supplanted an older canonical work of the same name
3) Such a fate was shared also by Angas 8 and 9 see Schubring Worte Ms, p 6
4) See Schubring. Worte Ms, pp 6 and 13
5) Anga 7, 8, and 9 are called Uväsaga Antagada° and Anuttarovavāiyas dasão, Anga 11 is called Viväga-suya but it has grown out of the Kamma viväga-dasão mentioned in Thana x, as for Anga 10, kvacit 'Prašnavyākara nadaśā' iti drsyate, says Abh
6) viz, that it has two śrutaskandhas, the äsava-dāras and the samvara, dāras, each consisting of five chapters Abh remarks that the matter of