History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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GENESIS OF THE JAINA SCRIPTURES
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dravyānuyoga, which is, in a way, subordinate to kathānuyoga. Similarly one who may be attaching the greatest importance to dravyānuyoga in preference to any of the rest of the anuyogas, may very well turn the tables against Anuoga and assign to it a place next to Puvvagaya, and not ahead of it.
These are the only solutions I can think of, at present. Consequently I shall not now any more dwell upon this problem.
This finishes a rough survey of the genesis of the dvādaśangi; but that does not mean the termination of the topic of this chapter. For, there are a good many Jaina scriptures besides the dvādaśāngi, though they are practically evolved' out of this dvādasangi, and that they are not the immediate compositions just coeval with the establishment of the tirtha by the Tirtharkara in question. This means that I should, first of all, define the phrase "Jaina scriptures" and then indicate the scriptures which are not included in the dvādaśangi.
To begin with, I may note the various meanings of the word 'scripture' as given in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (p. 1072 of the new edition revised by W. H. Fowler). They are : "The Bible with or without the Apocrypha2 (usually without article; also Holy scripture or the Ss.; a doctrine not found in S. or the Ss.); a or the quotation from the Bible; (attrib.) taken from or relating to the Bible (a s. text, lesson; cf. scriptural); sacred book of non-Christian community; (archaic) inscription."
From this it follows that leaving aside the archaic meaning of the word 'scripture' viz. 'inscription', it signifies a sacred book of any community, Christian or non-Christian. So one may naturally take the phrase 'Jaina scriptures' to mean sacred books of the Jainas. This view is correct, but I may add that the phrase
1. So far as this dvādaśangi is concerned, its 12 Angas are evolved out of Ditthivaya also
known as Bhūyāvāya. So says the following verse of Viseśävassayabhāsa :
"जइ वि भूयावाए सव्वस्स वओमस्स ओयारो । निज्जूहण तहावि दु दुम्मेहे पप्प इत्थी य ॥ ५५१॥ 2. The meanings of Apocrypha are given in this Dictionary on p. 50. They are : "Books
of old Testament included in Septuagint and Vulgate, but not originally written in Hebrew, nor counted genuine by Jews, and excluded from Canon at Reformation. In order that we can follow this, we may note the meanings of Septuagint and Vulgate. They are respectively as under :"Greek version of O. T. including the apocrypha said to have been made about 270 B. C. by seventy translators." "Latin version of the Bible prepared by Jerome te in the 4th c."