History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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A HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
Cosmogonists, (5) Sayavätis or Sensualists. (6) Samuccheda vätis or Annihilationists, (7) Nitāvādis or Eternalists and (8) Na-santi-paraloga-vātis or Materialists-Hedonists. In section X we have 10 types of dravyānuyoga (s. 727), 10 kinds of satya (s. 741), 10 sorts of suddhaväkyānuyoga (s. 744'), 10 types of calculations (s. 747), 10 sections of the Angas 7 to 9 (s. 755), 10 kinds of sons (s. 762) and 10 sorts of wonders (s. 777). At times, these enumerations contain parables in a nutshell. As for example, there are 4 kinds of baskets and also of teachers; there are 4 sorts of fish and also of mendicants; there are 4 varieties of ball and also of men etc.
SAMAVĀYA This is the 4th Anga. It is divided into 160 suttas. These mostly deal with objects according to their number, and thus, in a way continue the subject-matter of the 3rd Anga; for, suttas 1 to 135 enumerate different entities in rising numerical groups (samavāyas) of 1 to 100,3 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450, 500, 600 etc. up to 1100, 2000, 3000 etc. up to 10,000; 1 lac, 2 lacs etc., up to 9 lacs; 9000,4 10 lacs, 1 crore and 1 kotākoti of sāgaropamas. This is followed by the description of the 12 Angas, two rasis and their sub-divisions, two types of hellish beings etc., varieties of avadhijñäna etc., 6 types of samhanana, 6 sorts of samsthāna, 3 vedas, the 7 Kulakaras of the past utsarpiņī, the names etc., of the 24 Tirthankaras, 12 Cakravartins, 9 Vasudevas and 9 Baladevas of the present avasarpini, names of the 24 Tirtharkaras of the Airāvata zone and those of the Tirtharkaras to flourish, In s. 157, Kappa is referred to.
1. "दसविधे सुद्धावाताणुओगे पं० तं०-चंकारे १ मंकारे २ पिंकारे ३ सेतंकारे ४ सातंकरे ५ एगत्ते ६ पुधत्त ७ संजूहे
(Haftas fh P01" 2. " gremar aderenfahi
:"
-Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 82) on Tattvārtha (1, 20) 3. Under number 18, 18 kinds of the Brāhmi script are mentioned, and under number 36,
names of the 36 ajjhayanas of Uttarajjhayana are given. This latter topic must have been incorporated in Samavāya after its compilation, and same must be the case with
the mention of Nandi therein. 4. As regards this incongruity Abhayadeva Sūri observes on p. 106 :
इदं च सहस्रस्थानकमपि लक्षस्थानाधिकारे यदधीतं तत् सहस्रशब्दसाधाद् विचित्रत्वाद् वा सूत्रगतेलेखकदोषाद
afa \" 5. The data regarding the extents of these Angas do not tally with their present extents. 6. They are : (i) jīvarasi and (ii) ajīvarāsi.