Distribution Of Absolutive In Una In Ittarajjhaya

Author(s): Herman Tieken
Publisher: Herman Tieken

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HERMAN TIEKEN
Uttarajjhāyā has, together with Dasaveyaliya, been linked to three texts of the nijjutti class, namely Avassaya-Nijjutti, Pinda-Nijjutti, and Oha-Nijjutti. The five texts together are styled Mülasūtras. It may be concluded, at least as a working hypothesis for further research, that Uttarajjhāyā as we now have it has been compiled by the very same redactors who wrote the nijjuttis. In any case, rather than treating Uttarajjhāyā as one of the “Seniors” of the canon, further research on Uttarajjhāyā should in the first place be focused on its role side by side with the other four Mülasūtras, that is, the very role assigned to the text in the traditional classification of the canon.
By way of conclusion I would like to return to the ten instances of the absolutive ending in -ūna(m) in one of the other Mülasūtras, namely Dasaveyāliya. Unlike in Uttarajjhāyā most instances are found in the body of the text. Only three instances are found in what may be labelled a conclusion: laddhūņa (5.2.47/260), datthūņam (49/262), and sikkhiūna (50/263). The distribution of the instances in Dasaveyāliya is, however, peculiar in another respect. Seven of the ten instances are found in the fifth chapter on the begging tour.25 It can hardly be a coincidence that this is the very same topic covered by Pinda-Nijjutti!
25 Apart from the three instances quoted just now, the instances are: dathūņa (5:1.21/
103), padipucchiūna (5.1.107/189; v.l. padipucchiyā(na), padipucchitāna) gaheūna (5.1.116/198), and datthūnam (5.2.31/244). The three remaining instances are: datthūnam (6.25/288), vīyāveūņa (6.37/300; v.l. vīyāvae), and datthūnam (8.54/442).
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