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Five Anga-texts - story-collection
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Similarly, Anuttaraupapătika consists of 3 Vargas respectively containing 10, 13, 10 stories--So is a text containing 33 stories in all; but none of these is a story with an independent plot. As for those of 4 Upānga-texts, Kal pāyatamsika has 10 stories, Pus pacūla 10, Vrsnidasă 12 and they are all stereotyped, while Puspika has 10 stories of which only two-viz, Somila and Bahuputrika possess an independent plot. In the case of the Upāngatexts one might surmise that some later author (or circle of authors) was in possession of just three independent storles, of which one was turned into a stereotype to yield the 10 stories of Nirayāvalikā, two were presented in an independent form, while 40 stereotyped stories of the usual form were superadded to them -- thus making up five texts (here called "five Vargas pertaining to the U pāngas") with 52 stories in all. But why should the clumsy practice of presenting 81 stereotyped stories along with 4 independent ones (as is done in Antakst) or of presenting 33 stereotyped stories all alone (as is done in Anuttaraupapatika) should be followed in the case of a text pertaining to the class Anga which is the most fundamental class of canonical texts? Perhaps this question can be answered on the basis of a testimony coming from Sthānänga chapter 10 where the chapter-titles of 10 texts with a name ending in 'Daśa' are given out: (as is natural to expect the number of chapter-titles is 10 in each case). Now 4 of these ten texts have not come down to us in any form at all while the following six are somehow recognizable as follows:
(i) Karmavi pakadaśa is our Vipakaśruta I (ii) U pasakadaśa
is our Upasakadaśă (iii) Antakyddaśa
is our Antakțddaša (iv) Anut taraupapātikadaśa is our Anuttaraupapatikadaśa (v) Acaradala
is our Acāradasa (vi) Praśnavyākaranadaśa is our Praśnavyakarana
In the case of Upāsakadaśa and Acāradasa tbe chapter-titles present no anomaly at all, in the case of Karmavipakadašā some very minor anomalies. As for Praśnavyakarana it seems to have nothing to do with our Praśna. vyakarana whose chapter-titles are altogether different from those given in Sthananga, but the noteworthy thing is that the same is the case with Antakrddaśa and Anittaraupapatikadaśa which too seem to have nothing to do with our Antakyddaśa and Anuttarau pa pätikadaśa whose chapter-titles are altogether different from those given in Sthanānga. As a marter of fact, our Antakyddaśa and Anuttaraupapā tikadaśa are not at all a text with ten chapters, for they are both divided into Vargas which in turn are divided into Adhyayanas-so that the former comes to have 85 chapters in all the lattter 33. Under these circumstances it is a matter of minor significance that 2 chapter-titles - viz. Kimkamma and Sudamsaņa - are common to the Stha
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