History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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THE EXTINCT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
101 Nimitta may be either eight-fold or six-fold. The former is referred to in the following gāthā:
“भोम सुमिणंतलिक्खं दिव्वं अंगं सरलक्खणं तह य । वंजणमट्ठविहं खलु निमित्तमेव मुणेयव्वं ॥"
When nimitta refers to happiness, misery, profit, loss, life and death, it is looked upon as six-fold. It seems that Gosāla knew this six-fold nimitta ; for, in Viāhapannatti (xv; s. 539) it is said that he knew six types of nimitta. In Slanka Suri's com. (p. 218b) on Suyagada we come across the following passage :
"अत्र चाङ्गवर्जितानां निमित्तशास्त्राणामनुष्टभेन छन्दसा अर्धत्रयोदश शतानि सूत्रं तावन्त्येव सहस्राणि वृत्ति: तावत्प्रमाणलक्षा परिभाषेति।"
This means that the text of nimittaśāstras, Angas apart, comes to 1250 blokas, its vrtti to 12500 and its paribhāsā to 12 lacs and a half. It remains to be ascertained as to which this text is. Is it Nimittapāhuda or some other work probably based upon it ?
There is a work known as Prašnavyākarana on which the late Mr. C. D. Dalal has noted 3 commentaries viz. Cūļāmaņi, Jyoti and anonymous. He has suggested that Jayaprābhrta is another name of Praśnavyākarana, but Muni Kalyānavijaya expresses his doubt about it. Vide Jainayuga (I, 3, p. 93).
Pāhudas 10 to 14_We have practically no details available about these Pāhudas except what I have practically already noted. About Saddapāhuda I may add that Hemacandra Suri while commenting upon a grammatical portion (p. 150b) occurring in Aņuögaddāra (s. 130) expresses his inability to explain some part of it as Sabdaprābhrta is lost (vide Chap. VII).
Jinamandana Gani in his Kumārapālaprabandha (pp. 98b-99a) has said that 21 names of Śatruñjaya are noted in Vidyāprābhrta.
In the svopajña vịtti (p. 56b) of Saddhavihi (Śrāddhavidhi) we have: "प्रतिष्ठाप्राभृतात् श्रीपादलिप्तोद्धृतप्रतिष्ठापद्धातौ च यथाभणितम्"
From this it follows that Pādalipta's Pratisthāpaddhati is based upon Pratisthāprābhrta.
Siddhapāhuda—This is defined in Kahāvalī as below : "जत्थ पायलेबंजणगुडिवाईहिं सिद्धा स(: ? प)रूविजंति तं सिद्धपाहुडं"