History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS Adhuva and cavanaladdhi in the Laghucunni on Bandhasayaga, only the fifth as Khanaladdhi in Hemacandra's com. on Bandhasayaga, the name of the 3rd Vatthu of the 9th Puvva as Sāmāyārī in Drona Sūri's com. (p. 1b) on Ohanijutti and that of a Vatthu of the 10th as Neuniya in Visesão (v. 2390).
The Pāhudas In the Cunni on Bandhasayaga of Sivasarman Sūri and in the com. by Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri on this Bandhasayaga we find twenty varieties of suyanāna referred to. Out of them Pāhudapāhuda, Pāhuda and Vatthu and each with the word 'samāsa' added to it deserve to be here noted. Devendra Süri in his com. (p. 19) on Kammavivāga (v. 7) explains them as under:
"प्राभृतान्तर्वर्ती अधिकारविशेषः प्राभृतप्राभृतम् १३ । तवयादिसमुदायस्तु प्राभृतप्राभृतसमास: १४ । वस्त्वन्तर्वर्ती अधिकारविशेष: प्राभृतम् १५ । तवयादिसंयोगस्तु प्राभृतसमास: १६ । पूर्वान्तर्वर्ती 34ferrfagtatae 861 GESICHEREI TAHTA: 861"
Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 94) on Tattvārtha (I, 20) also throws light on this topic. There it is said : "htafa gertains 4:, 4TH: m etai, प्राभृतात् प्राभृतप्राभृतमल्पतरं, ततोऽध्ययनं ग्रन्थतोऽल्पतरं, तत उद्देशकोऽल्पतर इति ।”
From this it follows that Vatthu (Sk. Vastu) is a section of a Puvva, and Pāhuda (Sk. Prābhrta) is a sub-section of this section. This Pāhuda has sections each known as Pāhudapāhuda. Vatthu is bigger than Pahuda and Pāhuda is bigger than Pāhudapāhuda.
The Digambaras believe that Kundakunda Ācārya has composed 84 Pāhudas out of which 8 are available at present; but, herein I am not dealing with any one of them; for, I am here concerned with the Svetāmbara literature on this point, and, moreover, these 8 extant Pāhudas do not form a part of the canonical literature. I may say that in this literature nowhere a list of all the Pāhudas2 is given; but we
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It may be noted that this Pāhuậa has nothing to do with the 20 pāhudas of Suriyapannatti and 21 pähudas of Joisakarandaga. There seems to be no such work which mentions either the number or the names of the Pāhudas of each Vatthu. From p. 94, fn. 1, we learn that the 3rd Vatthu of the 9th Puvva has at least 20 Pāhudas, and that the name of this 20th is Ayāra. From p. 93, fn. 11, we learn that the 8th Puvva has at least 17 Pāhudas, and from p. 97, fn. 2, we see that the 5th Vatthu of the 2nd Fuvva has 20 Pāhudas, and its 4th Pāhuda is named as Kammapayadi.