History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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THE EXTANT AGAMAS OF THE JAINAS
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In the end we have disputations of Ardra with Gośāla, a Bauddha, a Vaidika priest, a Vedantin and a Hastitapasa, and that of Udaka, a follower of Lord Parsva, with Gautama. In Suyagada (II, 3) there are four verses almost at the end. The last two of them mention various types of jewels.
Thus the contents of this 2nd Anga supply a young monk with materials whereby he can fortify himself against the heretical doctrines of alien teachers and preachers, can confirm himself in the right faith and can lead himself to the summum bonum.
Metres-There seems to be no old source which discusses the metres of verses of Ayāra and Suyagada. As already observed on p. 125 this question has been however handled in modern days by the late Prof. Jacobi and by the late K. H. Dhruva. The latter observes in Evolution of Gujarati Verse (p. 152) as under:
‘“સુત્તકાલના સાંપ્રત વ્યાખ્યાનમાં આધાર તરીકે સ્વીકારેલાં આચાર અને સૂયગડ અંગમાં ચાર જ છંદનો પ્રયોગ છે, અનુશ્નો ત્રિષ્ટુનો વૈતાલીય(પ્રા. વેઆલીય)નો અને ગાથાનુઝુભી સંસૃષ્ટિનો. સૌમાં અધિક પ્રચાર અનુત્તુભ્ભો છે.’’
[Translation: "In the present lecture dealing with the time of Suttas, I have selected Ayara and Suyagaḍa, the two Anga works, as the basis of my treatment. In them only four metres are employed. They are anustubh, tristubh, vaitālīya (Prākṛta veālīya) and gāthānuṣṭubhi samsrsti. But among these four metres, anusṭubh is greatly used."]
On p. 154 he quotes a verse from Suyagada (1, 1, 4, 8) and names its metre as Sautta anuṣṭubh. Further, on this page he says that in Suyagaḍa, Arcika triṣṭubh is used 46 times, Traistubhi upajāti 92 times and Indravajra 25 times. As an illustration of Sautta tristubh he quotes on p. 156 Sūyagaḍa (1, 14, 17), and for that of Vaitālīya, 1, 2, 2, 20 on p. 157. Here he says that in Suyagada there is not a single verse in Vṛddhavaitaliya usually known as Aupacchandasika in prosody. On p. 158 is quoted I, 2, 1, 6 as an illustration of a verse of which the 1st foot is in Vṛddhavaitālīya and the rest in Vaitaliya. The metre of which there is no name to be found in prosody and which is designated by K. H. Dhruva as Gāthānuṣṭubhi samsṛṣṭi in virtue of its being a combination of Anustubh and Gāthā, is used in both the uddesas of Thīparinna and in the ending portions of some other ajjhayaṇas as well. On p. 159, 3 verses are quoted from Suyagada. They are: I, 4, 1, 4; I, 1, 3, 16; and I, 1. 8, 26. Of these the 1st has its 1st and 3rd feet