History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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THE CANONICAL EXEGETICAL LITERATURE
There seem to be two Pañcakappabhāsas (vide p. 36). Out of them the authorship of the bigger one is attributed to Sanghadāsa Gani Kṣamāśramana.' It comprises about 2574 verses.2
The available Bhasa on Vavahära is printed. It is anonymous and consists of about 4629 verses.
In Jainagranthavali (p. 10) there are noted two Nisihabhāsas. Out of them, one having about 6439 verses is anonymous. But it may be that either this work or the bigger one is composed by Jinabhadra Gani3 Kṣamāśramaṇa.“ Muni Kalyāṇavijaya in his Gujarātī intro. (p. 48) to Prabhavakacaritra says that either this Bhasa itself or a metrical composition expounding Nisha may be the work of Siddhasena Diväkara. He further says on p. 49 that this Siddhasena seems to have written Tīkās and Bhāsas on several Agamas; but, now all of them are lost.
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Jiyakappabhasa is anonymous, and its extent is about 3300 slokas. There is one Ms. of it in the Limbdī Bhaṇḍāra. Its first 3 verses and the last 3 ones are given on p. 17 of the intro. to Jitakalpasūtra. Therein it is stated on p. 18 that this Bhasa is posterior to Siddhasena Suri's Jiyakappacuṇni.
Ohanijjuttibhāsa and Pindanijjuttibhāsa are each anonymous, and some of the verses of each of them have got mixed up with Ohanijjuttis and Pindanijjutti respectively.
It may be noted that it will be committing oneself to say that any and every Bhasa is older than one and all the Cunnis, though it is true that that Bhāsa on which we have a Cunni, is certainly anterior to that Cunni. Viseśa" is posterior to some of the Cunnis. Vuddhabhāsa of Kappa is preceded by its Cunni and Visehacunni, and same is the case with Jiyakappabhāsa. Cunni is as a rule anterior to its corresponding Visehacunni, and it seems that in order that the latter may be distinguished from the former, the word viseha is added to it.
Just as Bhāsa is designated as Gāhā so Cunni* seems to be styled as Paribhāsa,
1-2. Ibid., p. 261.
3. In his Viseśä, v. 235 begins with "ca". This very verse and the illustrations here refered to occur in Nisihabhäsa. This is borne out by Kotyäcārya's com. (p. 95) on Visesä" where he says: "graft fryftà geam:". Further, the 1st hemistich of this verse occurs in Jiyakappacunni (p. 29).
4. See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. III, p. 468)
5-6 See the printed editions of these works. See page 212 of addition.