History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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Prākrtal and differences of opinion regarding philosophical topics. On p. 274 we have : "तदन्यत्राभिहितं शेषं दशवैकालिकचूर्णी अभिहितं". This Dasaveyāliyacunni may or may not be belonging to this very author. If it is his work it follows that Dasaveyāliyacunni was composed by him before he composed Uttarajjhayanacunni.
Abhayadeva Sūri has used a Cuņņi and a commentary on Viāhapannatti while commenting upon it.3
On Kappa there are two anonymous Cunnis. But according to Jaina Granthāvali (p. 12), one of them is composed by Pralamba Sūri.
Vavahāracunni narrates an episode“ pertaining to King Gardabhilla and Kālaka Sūri wherein the latter succeeds in relieving his sister Sarasvatī, a nun from this king who had abducted her, and in dethroning this king. In its 8th section it is stated that Ārya Raksita Sūri gave permission to the Jaina clergy to keep a mātraka (a kind of small vessel) during the rainy season.
Dasāsuyakkhandhacunni is anonymous and it mentions Siddhasena (Divākara). See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 70).
Jīyakappacunni, a Prākrta work of Siddhasena Sūri, is mostly in prose. From p. 19, II. 20-215 and p. 23, I. 226 it follows that some one else also had composed a Cunni on Jiyakappa; but it seems that this is now lost. The extant Cunni explains the five varieties of vyavahāra with their sub-varieties, gives etymologies and synonyms of some words (vide pp. 4-5, 28 and 30) and explains a rule of Prāksta grammar on p. 2.? This Cunni mentions some works as well. Out of them Pindanijjutti (p. 14) and Jonipāhuda (p. 28) may be here noted. On p. 17, there is a reference to games viz. atthāvaya and caüranga, to gambling, and to Samāsa, Paheliya* and kuhedaga. So far as the date of this Cunni is concerned, only its lower limit can be fixed; for, Śricandra Sūris, devotee of Dhaneśvara Sūri, pupil of Sīlabhadra Sūri has composed a
1. See p. 198, 225. 230 etc. 2. See pp. 145-146 etc.
See D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, Pt I, p. 86). 4. This episode and the transference of the date of the paryusanaparvan are mentioned
in Nisihacunni. 5. "fasse g ut rerum fagfs." 6. "36a fafarrefouTut a fa fa fen" 7. "Trg an tarafush" 8. Before he became Sūri, he was known as Pārsvadeva Gani. * See page 212 of addition.
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