Book Title: Facets of Jain Philosophy Religion and Culture
Author(s): Shreechand Rampuriya, Ashwini Kumar, T M Dak, Anil Dutt Mishra
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
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292 Anekāntavāda and Syādvāda
accepted as synonyms, and Anekānta-vāda is said to precede Syādvāda in time. This last remark possibly means that the Jaina canon of the Svetämbaras does not refer to Syädväda or Saptabhañgi.
So far as the pro-canonical texts of the Digambaras are concerned, Kundakunda, who is one of the earlier author-saints, mentions, as I have shown elsewhere,2 full fledged Syädväda in Pañcāstikāya and Pravacanasāra ; and the former work gives the name Saptabhangi. Turning to the Svetämbara canon, it has been already pointed out that the three primary predications are mentioned in Bhagavatīsūtra or Viyahapannatti. As yet the Ardhamāgadhi canon of the Svetāmbaras is not exhaustively studied in all its details. Quite recently, however, that great German orientalist, Dr. Walther Schubring of the Hamburg University, has given to us an authentic resume of the entire Ardhamāgadhi canon in his ‘Die Lehre der Jainas.' He states that the basic material for Syadvāda is already there, but the complete structure, which is later on known as Anekānta, is not explicitly found there.
The Sanskrit commentators do help us in interpreting the texts of the Ardhamāgadhi canon, but at times we have to ignore their explanations, when they are not satisfactory, and try to construe and interpret certain passages on comparative and philological lines of study. I purpose to draw the attention of scholars to a couple of passages, which, I think, refer to Saptabhangi and Syädvāda b names.
(i) The Vācaka family of religious teachers, to which Nagahastin and many other famous personages belonged, is thus glorified in Nandisūtra, verse No. 30 :
“वड्डउ वायगवंसो जसवंसो अज्जनागहत्थीणं।
वागरणकरणभंगियकम्मपयडीपहाणाणं॥" The second line is explained by Malayagiri in this manner :
“कथंभूतानामित्याह-व्याकरणकरणभङ्गीकर्मप्रकृतिप्रधानानाम्, तत्रव्याकरणं संस्कृतशब्दव्याकरणं प्राकृतशब्दव्याकरणं च प्रश्नव्याकरणं वा, करणं पिण्डविशुद्धादि, उक्तं च–‘पिंडाविसोही समिई भावण पडिमा य इंदियनिरोहो। पडिलेहणगुणिओ अभिग्गहा चेव करणं तु॥' भङ्गी भङ्गबहुलं श्रुतम्, कर्म प्रकृतिः प्रतीता, शब्देषु
2. My Introduction to Pravacanasāra, p. 87. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid.
