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
different entities in rising numerical groups (samavāya) of 1 to 1001, 150, 200, 250, 300, 350, 400, 450; 500, 600 etc., up to 1100; 2000, 3000 etc. up to 10,000; 1 lac, 2 lacs etc. up to 9 lacs; 9000,2 10 lacs, 1 crore and 1 kotākoți of sāgaropamas. This is followed by the description of the 12 Angas, two rāsis and their sub-divisions, two types of hellish beings etc., varieties of avadhijñāna etc., 6 types of samhanana, 6 sorts of saṁsthāna, 3 vedas, the 7 Kulakaras of the past utsarpiņi, the names etc. of the 24 Tirthařkaras, 12 Cakravartins, 9 Vasudevas and 9 Baladevas of the present avasarpini, names of the 24 Tirthankaras of the Airavata zone and those of the Tirthařkaras to flourish. In s. 157 Kappa is referred to.
VIĀHAPANNATTIS This is the 5th Anga having 5 titles6 as noted on pp. 57-58. It is divided into 41 sections known as saäs?, almost all of which have sub1 Under number 18, 18 kinds of the Brāhmi script are mentioned, and under number
36, names of the 36 ajjhayaņas of Uttarajjhayaņa are given. This latter topic must have been incorporated in Samavāya after its compilation, and same must be the
case with the mention of Nandi therein. 2 As regards this incongruity Abhayadeva Sūri observes on p. 106a :
"इदं च सहस्रस्थानकमपि लक्षस्थानाधिकारे यदधीतं तत् सहस्रशब्दसाधाद् विचित्रत्वाद् वा सूत्रगतेलेखकदोषाद् atta," 3 The data regarding the extents of these Angas do not tally with their present extents.
They are : (i) jīvarāsi and (ii) ajīvarasi. 5 Ten different meanings of this title are noted by Abhayadeva Sūri in his com. (pp.
2-3) on this work. Therein he has suggested the following Samskrta equivalents of this title:
() FETITA, (?) 26413a () Paaremah, () PaaIEIJIH, (4) Pagtunaf (8) fayih. 6 The popular title is Bhagavatīsūtra. 7 This word is used in the beginning of the 2nd saä. In Samavāya (s. 81) we have : "विवाहपन्नत्तीए एकासीति महाजुम्मसया पन्नत्ता".
Abhayadeva Sūri, while commenting upon this says on pp. 886 and 891 :
"व्याख्याप्रज्ञप्त्यामेकाशीतिर्महायुग्मशतानि प्रज्ञप्तानि, इह च 'शत'शब्देनाध्ययनान्युच्यन्ते, तानि कृतयुग्मादिलक्षणराशिविशेषविचाररूपाणि अत्रान्तराध्ययनस्वभावानि तदवगमावगम्यानीति ।"