Book Title: History of Canonical Literature of Jainas
Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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________________ 90 THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS Puvvagaya—This is fourteen-fold inasmuch as it consists of the following 14 Puvvas : (1) Uppāya, (2) Aggāṇīya, (3) Vīriä, (4) Atthinathippavāya, (5) Nāņappavāya, (6) Saccappavāya, (7) Āyappavāya, (8) Kammappavāya, (9) Paccakkhāņappavāya, (10) Vijjāņuppavāya?, (11) Avañjha (12) Pāņāü, (13) Kiriāvisāla and (14) Lokabindusāra. These names are here given according to the Nandī (s. 57). In Pavayanasāruddhāra (dāra 92), we come across almost these very names except that for Kammappavāya we have Samayappavāya and for Lokabindusāra, Bindusāra. For contents according to the Svetāmbara point of view, one may refer to the Cunni (pp. 57-58) on Nandi, Abhayadeva Sūri's com. (p. 131a and p. 131b) on Samavāya, Siddhasena Gani's Tikā (pp. 207-208) on Pavayanasāruddhāra etc. From these sources we learn: The 1st Puva deals with the origin of all the dravyas and paryāyas; the 2nd, with their measurements (parimāņa); the 3rd, with the potentialities-powers of the animate and inanimate objects;* the 4th, with the existence and non-existence of objects from the stand-points of dravya, ksetra, kāla and bhāva; the 5th, with five kinds of knowledge; the 6th, with samyama and truth and their opposites; the 7th, with an exposition of ātman from various stand-points; the 8th, with eight kinds of karman their subdivisions; the 9th, with pratyākhyāna; the 10th with 4vidyās-miraculous lores; the 11th, with merit and demerit and their fructifications; the 12th, with 10 types of prāna and various kinds of ayusya; the 13th, with activities pertaining to samyama etc.; and the 14th, with a subject not mentioned. 1 For a variant see p. 95, fn. 6. 2 A list of the names of the 14 Puvvas along with their contents is found in the Digambara works, too, e.g. in Tattvartharājavārtika (pp. 51-53). 3 In śīlānka Suri's com. (p. 167a) on Sūyagada (suya I, VIII) and its Nijjutti (v. 96) it is said that in Viryapravāda infinite viryas (potentialities) are propounded. Further here the meanings of a pūrva are said to be infinite. The following two quotations are given by way of corroboration: "सव्वणईणं ता होज वालुया गणणमागया सन्ती । तत्तो बहु यतरागो अत्थो एगस्स पुव्वस्स ।। सव्वसमुद्दाणं जलं जइपत्थमियं हविज संकलियं । gat afTaMT 377 TEH goath 11". 4 Cf. the outlines of siddhacakra given by Ratnasekhara Sūri in his Sirivālakahā (v. 196-206). As stated there these verses are based upon the 10th Puvva. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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