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
I may make, is based upon the following verse of Pancakappabhāsa quoted in Abhidhānarājendra (vol. III, p. 1361) :
"परिणाम अपरिणामा अइपरिणामा य तिविहा पुरिसा सु । णातूणं छेदसुत्तं परिणामणे होंति दायव्वं ॥"
From this it follows that a class of works which can be taught to the parinata pupils only, and not to the other two types of pupils viz. aparinata? and atiparinata,? is designated as Chedasutta.
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These are the two conjectures I may note at present. So I shall now refer to the oldest source where the word Cheyasutta? or its variant Chedasutta, is to be met with. The former word occurs in the Avassayanijjutti, the pertinent verse being as under :
"जं च महाकप्पसुअं जाणि अ सेसाणि छेयसुत्ताणि । ypurch UTTYM fa cifte 3ahrenfor 119961194
The latter word occurs in Pañcakappabhäsa.5
Though the word 'Cheyasutta' thus occurs as early as the date of Āvassayanijjutti, there is no mention about the number of Cheyasuttas till we come to a very very late date. The earliest source which I remember at present, and which mentions the number and names of Cheyasuttas is Bhāvaprabha Sūri's com. (p. 94) on his own work Jainadharmavarastotra (v. 30). There this Sūri who attained this status in Samvat 1772 says: "37ey figfter 8 Haftster R व्यवहार ३ दशाश्रुतस्कन्ध ४. बृहत्कल्प ५ जीतकल्प ६ इति षट् छेदग्रन्थाः ।"
On this very page he has quoted the following verse which shows that in his days at least, the number of the Cheyasuttas was fixed as six :
1. Undeveloped; not properly developed in intelligence etc. 2. Overdeveloped; hyperlogical. 3. The word Cheyasuya occurs in jiyakappacunni (v. 9) of Siddhasena Sūri.
The verse in question is as under:
"जेण य छेयसुयत्था आवत्तीदाणविरयणा जत्तेणं । पुरिसविसेसेण फुडा निज्जूढा जीयदाणकप्पम्मि विही ॥९॥" 4. This verse is incorporated as v. 2295 in Višeśāvassayabhāsa. 5. In Visehacunni (XVIII, fol. 469), of Nisīha we come across this word in the
following lines quoted by Muni Kalyānavijaya, in his article "37744 yyat" published in Jaina Yuga (1, 3, p. 87) णिसीहमादियस्स छेदसुत्तस्स जो अत्थो आगतो सुत्तं वा मोक्कलाणि वा पच्छित्तविहाणाणि मंताणि वा
जोणिपाहुडं वा गाहंतो अण्णत्थागाहेति" 6. This is also called Dasā and Āyāradasä as well.