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THE EXTINCT ĀGAMAS OF THE JAINAS (2) According to the opinion of Bhadrabāhusvāmin and others,
females owing to some of their weaknesses are not entitled for its study. Thereby it is suggested that it is not within the reach
of one and all, but it is meant for the deserving few. (3) There is not a single subject or a topic which does not
come within its compass. It deals with mantras, tantras, and
yantras, too. (4) It has got ten significant names, and thus it forms an almost
glaring exception to the rest of the Jaina scriptures. (5) It is the very first work lost by the Jainas. (6) Its contents are so to say preserved by the Svetämbaras and the
Digambarass as well, though they differ in some of the details. (7) It is a splendid example of the gamika śruta.. (8) It abounds in bhangas.? (9) Some of the workså either partially or wholly are extracted from
this Ditthivāya. As already noted on p. 7, Ditthivāya is divided into five sections viz., (1) Parikamma, (2) Sutta, (3) Puvvagaya, (4) Anuöga and (5) Cūliyā, out of which at least the first two had become extinct at least by the time Jinadāsa Gani Mahattara wrote his Cunni on Nandi.
1 "Tot Maan alaput goom fursa
sfa 375#HERIOTT Teratit a fi 11 88€ II" - Kappanijjutti This very verse occurs in Visesāvassayabhāsa as v. 552. By others I mean Jinbhadra Gani, Kotyācārya, Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri,
Malayagiri Sūri, Jinadāsa Gani Mahattara and Haribhadra Süri. 3 See fn. 1 and The Jaina System of Education (p. 239). 4 In Avassayacunni (pt. I, p. 35) it is said :
"बहवे दुम्मेधा असत्ता दिट्टिवायं अहिजिउं अप्पाउयाण य आउयं ण पहुप्पति, इत्थियाओ पुण पाएण तुच्छाओ गारवबहुलाओ चलिन्दियाओ दुब्बलधिईओ, अतो एयासिं जे अतिसेसज्झयणा अरुणोववायणिसीहमाइणो दिट्ठिवातो
ya oferita ," 5 For comparison of the nature of the contents and extent of Ditthivāya see Dhavala
(Vol. II, introduction pp. 41-68). 6-7 See p. 82. 8 For their list see pp. 93, 94 and 95. 9 See p. 88, fr. 8 and p. 89, fn. 2.
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