Book Title: History of Canonical Literature of Jainas
Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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________________ 118 A HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS find that for getting a complete view of any one topic, we have often to refer to different uddesas of the various saäs. Śrībhagavatīsāra, a chāyānuvāda prepared by Mr. G. J. Patel, however, solves this difficulty; for, he has rearranged the suttas and grouped them according to the subject they deal with. In doing so, he has divided the work into 10 khandas with their respective titles as under : Sadhana, caritra, siddhānta, anyatīrthika, vijñāna, ganita, kutūhala, deva, näraka and anyajīva, with the word khanda added to each of them. It may be here remarked that the following lines occur in Śrībhagavatīsāra (p. 300) : “હું હમણાં મરણ પામવાનો નથી, પણ ૧૬ વર્ષ જીવવાનો છું. માટે તું મૅઢિક નગરમાં રેવતી ગૃહપત્ની છે, તેને ત્યાં જા. તેણે મારે માટે બે કબૂતર રાંધીને તૈયાર કર્યા છે. પણ તેને કહેજે કે મારે તેમનું કામ નથી, પરંતુ ગઈ કાલે બિલાડાએ મારેલા કૂકડાનું માંસ તેણે તૈયાર કરેલું છે, તે મારે માટે લઈ આવ.” This translation was greatly resented by the Jainas especially when Mr. G. J. Patel's article "HEERTH HİHER" got published in Prasthāna (Pustaka XXVII, No. 1, pp. 66-74, Samvat 1995, Kārtika). Several articles were written as a rejoinder by some of the Jaina Sadhus and others. There they have pointed out that the words कपोय, मज्जार and कुक्कुङ do not here mean a pige a cat and a cock; but stand for कुष्माण्ड, वायुविशेष or विरालिक (a kind of vanaspati) and t o respectively. They have further supported their view by quoting Nighantus and Suśrutasamhitā (XLVI). I may note in passing that in II, 5 (s. 112) a spring (haraä) of hot water in Rājagrha is described, and in XII, 6 (s. 453) there are mentioned 9 names of Rāhu. In the end, I may mention that by way of cross-references, the following Agamas are alluded to, in his 5th Anga : 1. The original passage is as under : "तं गच्छह णं तुमं सीहा ! मेंढियगामं नगरं रेवतीए गाहावतिणीए गिहे । तत्थ णं रेवतीए गाहावइए मम अट्ठाए दुवे कपोयसरीरा उवक्खडिया तेहि नो अट्टो अस्थि । से अण्णे पारियासिए मज्जाइकडे कुक्कडमंसए तमाहराहि, एएण 3799/" -XVII, 9; S. 557. 2. Four of them have been published in Jaina satya prakāśa (vol. IV, nos. 6 and 7). Therein the articles of Anandasagara Sūri and Vijayalāvanya Sūri deserve to be specially noted. See page 210 of addition. 3. These words may have been singed out with a view to making the pertinent lines construable according to the 4 different anuyogas. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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