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THE EXTANT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
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THĀŅA Thana is the 3rd Anga. It is divided into ten sections known as ajjhayanas, with no specific names from them except Ekasthānaka, Dvisthānaka, Tristhānaka etc., up to Daśasthānaka - the names probably coined by Abhayadeva Sūri in his commentary on this Thāņa. Some of these sections have sub-sections known as uddesas. For instance, sections II, III, IV and V have 4, 4, 4, and 3 uddesas, whereas the rest have none. Nevertheless each section is divided into suttas.2 Their total number is 783.
The entire work is mostly in prose?, each section of it deals with objects according to their number,4 the maximum number going up to 10. In section III (s. 128) persons are divided into 3 classes, best, mediocre and worst, and these are each further subdivided into 3 sub-classes. In section VII, are mentioned 7 nayas (s. 552), 7 svaras or the notes of the musical scale (s. 5535), 7 samudghātas or explosions (s. 586) and 7 schisms6 (s. 587). In section VIII we come across 8 types of philosophers (s. 607), 8 mahānimittas (s. 608), 8 vibhaktis (cases) with illustrations (s. 609) etc. Therein the 8 types of philosophers are : (1) Egāvātis or Monists, Theists or Monotheists, (2) Anegāvātis or Pluarists, (3) Mitavādis or Extensionists, (4) Nimittavādis or
1. For corroboration see p. 20, fn. I. At times ajjhayanas are called thānas. See the end
of V, i. 2. The very 1st sutta is : " 37158 ! Moj ET TEHOREN" 3. Sutta 553 consists of several verses. 4. "ccf fyrrufu qua TPTT" - Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 82) on Tattvartha
(I, 20) 5. Over and above the svāras their sthanas, their generating organs animate and
inanimate, the fruits of singing the musical notes, their gramas and mūrchanas, their sources etc. are dealt with, in this sutta, with a passing reference to Sakkata (Sk. Samskrta) and Pägata (Sk. Präkrta) and to Isibhāsiya (Sk. Rsibhasita) The pertinent portion is as under :
"सकता पागता चेव दुहा भणितीओ आहिया ।
FHSM firovià The SAFET II" (p. 394) This very verse with a variant "fun$37 ifa zifuoy q" for the 2nd foot occurs in Anuogaddāra (p. 120).
In short, this is a svaramandala, and it is entirely reproduced in Aņuogaddāra (s. 127). 6. See E. Leumann's article “Die alten Berichte von den Schismen der Jaina” published in
Indischen Studien (vol. XXII, pp. 91-135). 7. The 6 verses given in this connection occur almost ad verbatim in Anuogaddāra (s. 128)
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