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
is the case with the Malayagiri Sūri' who has commented upon Uvangas 2 to 7- viz. Rāyapaseniya,Jivābhigama, Pannavaņā,4 Sūrapannatti, Candapannatti and Jambuddivapannatti. In his com. on the 3rd Uvanga, he refers to an earlier com.,' but he has not mentioned the commentator. So this does not help us. His com. on the 7th Uvanga was lost at least by the time Prameyaratnamañjūsā was composed in Samvat 1661. So this also does not improve the situation.
Śricandra Sūri has commented upon Uvangas 8 to 12, in Saṁvat 1228. But he is silent so far as the number of the Uvangas is concerned. So it now remains to be seen as to what Haribhadra Sūri,' well-known as the Dharmasūnu of Yakini Mahattarā has said in his com. on Pannavanā, the 4th Uvanga. It exists in a Ms. form. 1o On going through the first few folios of one of its Mss., I came across the following line :
"तच्चाङ्गोपाङ्गप्रकीर्णकाद्यनेकभेदमिदं.. अपवर्गावहमिति कृत्वा तदेकदेशभूतप्रज्ञापनाख्योपाङ्गप्रदेशानुयोगः प्रारभ्यते ।"
This only informs us that Pannavanā is an Uvanga; but it throws no further light on this problem.
Turning to Siddhasena" Gani's com. on Tattvārtha (I, 21) and its
1. He was a contemporary of Kumārapāla; for, in some of his works he has said
gharcursue and in his grammar he has said : "375UTCL TUMISTA." 2. "TPS44154 ? Jeid gaige" (p 14) 3. "atung FH ... vitarvitaim4714647415 yafet chloomis farkatehetata fein" (p 15)
"45114fa : Yogief: ?....321 Harepage " (p 2°)and p.26) It seems, nowhere in the com., it is said that it is an Uvanga, much less that it is an
Uvanga of such and such an Anga. 6. The com. on this work is in a Ms. form and is not available to me at present. 7. See the ending portion of fn. 3. 8. "उपाङ्गानां च मध्ये प्रथममुपाङ्गं श्री अभयदेवसूरिभिर्विवृतं, राजप्रश्नीयादीनि षट् श्रीमलयगिरिपादैविवृतानि,
पञ्चोपाङ्गमयी निरयावलिका च श्रीचन्द्र( प्रभ)सूरिभिर्विवृत्ता, तत्रप्रस्तुतोपाङ्गस्य वृत्तिः श्रीमलयगिरिकृताऽपि सम्प्रति कालदोषेण व्यवच्छिन्ना" According to Gathāsahasri composed in Samvat 1630, he died in Samvat 535. Another traditon which can be traced till the 13th century gives 529 A. D. as the date. But
several modern scholars believe that he lived from A. D. 700 to 770 or so. 10. For a Ms. see D. C. J. M. (vol. XVII, pt. I, pp. 203-204). 11. He flourished sometime between the 6th and the 9th centuries. Probably he is an
author of the com. on Ayāra-the com. available at the time Silānka commented upon
it, and he is the very one designated as Gandhahastin.
9.