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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
Parikamma – Just as it is necessary to know fundamental operations such as addition, subtraction etc., before one can solve arithmetical problems, so one should study Parikamma before one can commence the study of Sutta, Puvvagaya etc. Thus Parikamma is a stepping-stone for further study. It is of seven kinds : (1) Siddhaseniā-parikamma, (2) Maņussaseniā-parikamma, (3) Putthaseniā-parikamma, (4) Ogādhaseņiā-parikamma,2 (5) Uvasampajjaṇaseņia-parikamma, (6) Vippajahanaseniā-parikamma and (7) Cuācuäseniä-parikamma. Each of these kinds has sub-varieties which, in all, come to 83. Siddhaseniapārikamma has 14 sub-varieties : Maugāpaya, Egatthiyapaya, Atthapaya", Pādhoāmāsapaya,4 Keübhūä, Rāsibaddha, Egaguna, Duguna, Tiguņa, Keubhūä, Padiggaha, Samsārapadiggaha, Nandāvatta and Siddhāvatta.5 Manussaseniä parikamma, too, has 14 sub-varieties. Of them the names of 13 are practically the same as those noted for Siddhaseniä parikamma, the 14th being Manussāvatta. Putthaseniä parikamma has 11 sub-varieties. The names of them are Pādhoāmāsapaya upto Nandāvatta as noted before, the 11th being Putthāvatta. Each of the rest has 11 sub-varieties. The names of the first 10 of them are the same as noted for Putthaseniä parikamma, while the respective names for the 11th are: Ogādhāvatta, Uvasampajjanavatta, Vippajahanavatta and Cuācuāvatta.7 Practically we know next to nothing about all these 83 sub-varieties. Even there is no explanation given as to why Keubhuä is mentioned twice, while enumerating the 14 sub-varieties of Siddhaseniä parikamma.
Of these 7 kinds of Parikamma, the first six which refer to svasamaya, come within the range of the 4 nayas viz. Sangaha, Vavahāra, Rjusutta, and Saddāi. Negama is of two kinds : Sangahiya and Asangahiya. The former is included in Sangaha, and the latter in Vavahāra. The Saddai nayas which are 4, are to be counted as one. 1 Cf." - fo TORUT, FTET U T HIGH TR4141 amftauaren foar it wafa, kai
megfo ret hayastafarguay UIT wafa" - Nandīcunni (p. 55). 2-5 In Samaväya (s. 147) we have Ogāhanaseniäparikamma, Padotthapaya, Āgāsapaya
and Siddhabaddha respectively. 6 Thus the total comes to 14+14+11+11+11+11+11=83. 7 See Nandi (s. 57) 8 "तं च परिकम्मं सिद्धसेणितपरिकम्मादिथूलभेदयो सत्तविधं उत्तरभेदयो तेसीतिविधं मातुअपदादी, तं च सव्वं
TRUS TEST DRESSUUT FETISHGTi a da" - Nandicunni (p. 55)
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