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
141 In the end it may be remarked that the Mss. of this 6th Anga present many different readings. Some of them are noted and explained by Abhayadeva Sūri in his com. on it.
UVĀSAGADASĀ
This 7th Anga consists of 10 ajjhayanas noted on p. 112, fn. 2. Of them the first enumerates in minute details the various vows and observances undertaken by Ananda4 and his wife in the presence of Lord Mahāvīra. Ananda on his leading a pious life as a lay adherent (uvāsaga') for 20 years attains avadhijñāna.
The next 4 ajjhayaņas furnish us with the lives of 4 other lay adherents who did not give up their vows even though each of them was threatened by one god or another with the loss of the life, relatives, health and property respectively.
The 6th deals with the life of Kundakoliya whose faith remains unshaken in Lord Mahāvīra's teachings, though they are denounced by a god while propounding the tenets of Gosāla to him.
The 7th supplies us with a story of Saddālaputta formerly a devotee of Gosala. Lord Mahāvīra convinces him by arguments that the doctrine of Gosāla is faulty. Thereupon he becomes a staunch convert so much so that an attempt made by Gosāla himself to make him re-embrace his faith, fails.
The 8th illustrates as to how Revai (Sk. Revati) harasses her husband Mahāsayaya by subjecting him to temptations to enjoy sensual objects. He however remains firm, and Revas suffers for rejecting Jainism.
The 9th and the 10th ajjhayaņas deal with the quiet and peaceful lives led by Nandinīpiya and Sālihīpiya, the two great devotees of Lord Mahavira out of 10. 1 of them, those occurring in 3 Mss. deposited at B. O. R. I. and in Abhayadeva
Sūri's com. are given by Prof. N. V. Vaidya in his edition (pp. 231-245) of this
Anga. 2 See pp. 8a, 16a etc.
3. See p. 16a etc. 4 For analysis and episode of this Ananda, one of the ten Mahāśrāvakas, see R. Ch.
Dutt's A History of civilization in ancient India (vol. II). 5 “3474:Mahila mafuta tiziet zig aufà a JUTAGYTĖ"
- Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 91) on Tattvārtha (1, 20)