History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

Page 62

CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE AGAMAS
45
avassaya-vaïritta - a fact one can infer from the Cunni (p. 50)' on Nandi (s. 44). One may even go a step forward and equate it with anga-bāhira.
Number - As regards the number of the Païnnagas, it is not fixed like the number of the Angas which is, of course, 12 for one and all the tirthas. This number differs from tīrtha to tirtha. For instance, there were 84000 Païnnagas in the tirtha of Lord Rşabha, sarkhyāta in the Tirthas of subsequent 22 Tirthařkaras, and 14000 in the tirtha of Lord Mahāvīra; or in every tīrtha the number of the Painnagas was as many thousands as the number of pupils endowed with four types of mati, a Tirthankara had.? At the time when Nandi was composed, the names of 604 (31+29) Païnnagas were noted while at the time Pakkhiyasuttas was composed, the names of 656 (37+28) Païnnagas were noted. But at least since the time of Bhāvaprabha Sūri, the number of Païnnagas is fixed as ten.? In his com. (p. 94) on Jainadharmavarastotra (v. 30) the 10 Païnnagas are mentioned as under :
“अथ चउसरण पयन्नु २ आउरपच्चक्खाण ३ भक्तपरिज्ञा ४ तंदुलवियालियं ५ चंदाविजय ६ गणविज्जा ७ मरणसमाहि ८ देवेन्द्रसूत्र ९ संस्तारक १० इति दश प्रकीर्णकाणि ।"
Here, through over-sight, one Païînaga is left out. Probably it is Mahāpaccakkhāna.
Though the number of the Païnnagas has been fixed as ten at least for the last 200 years, there is no uniformity as to which works are to be so looked upon. However, in Weber's Verzeichniss der Sānskrit und Prākrit
1. See fn. 3. 2. See p. 23 fn. 3. 3. This cannot be dated later than the date of the redaction of the canon which is
either Vira Samvat 980 or 993. 4. See pp. 23 and 24. 5. Its date is to be settled, but it is certainly prior to Samvat 1180, the year in which
Yaśodeva Sūri commented upon it.. 6. See pp. 23 and 24.(7). See p. 35 8. This is borne out by Jaina Granthāvali where three different sets of 10 Païnnagas
are mentioned as under :(i) चतुःशरण, आतुरप्रत्याख्यान, भक्तपरिज्ञा, संस्तारक, तंदुलवैचारिक, चंद्रवेध्यक, देवेंदस्तव, गणिविद्या, HENCEA and attita - pp. 44-46. (ii) अजीवकल्प, गच्छाचार, मरणसमाधि, सिद्धप्राभुत, तीर्थोद्गार, आराधनापताका, द्वीपसागप्रज्ञप्ति, welfarahisa, infaen and faferychlucn-pp. 62-64. (iii) पिंडविशुद्धि, सारावलि, पर्यंताराधना, जीवविभक्ति, कवचप्रकरण, योनिप्राभृत, अंगचूलिया, वंगचूलिया,
IG TJ:44 and 1q44a-pp. 64-68. On p. 72, all these three sets are given; but through over-sight Pindaniryukti is mentioned there, instead of Pindaviśuddhi.