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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
BHATTAPARIŅŅĀ
This work "dispensing with food" consists of 173 gathās in Prakrta. It recommends bhattaparinnamaranal and deals with ethical precepts. The word bhattaparinna along with candagavejjha occurs in v. 807 of Ohanijjutti.
SANTHARAGA
This work "the pallet of straw” consisting of 121 gāthās or so points out the importance of samstāraka and praises those who rightly resort to it. It contains references pertaining to Arnikāputra, Sukośala Rsi, Canakya, Gajasukumāla and others who gave up attachment to body etc. and attained final emancipation. It may be noted that an attempt to collect references about narratives, legendary anecdotes etc., was made by Kurt von Kamptz in his monograph “Uber die vom Sterbefasten handelnden älteren Painna des Jaina-Kanons", Hamburg, 1929. Though this and other Painnas above-referred to deal with rules for a death befitting the sage, they are none the less didactic poems, contain sermons, and "make use of plays on numbers and all kinds of figures of ornate poetry."2
TANDULAVEYĀLIYA
This work is styled as Payannaya just in the beginning of this work. It is referred to as Tandulavicarana by Maladharin Hemacandra Suri in his commentary (p. 5a) on Aņuogaddāra. It is mostly in verses, their number being about 125. The main topics dealt with, herein are as under :
Embryology, food in the embryonic condition, births as a celestial being and a hellish being, 10 conditions of a living being?, description 1. Death forms a subject matter of several other Painnagas viz. Santhāraga,
Aurapaccakkhāna, Mahāpaccakkhana and Maranasamāhi. 2. See A History of Indian Literature (vol. II, p. 460). 3. The pertinent verse is the same as v. 10 of Da saveyaliyanijjutti. It runs :
"बाला १ किड्डा २ मंदा ३ बला ४ य पन्ना ५ य हायणि ६ पवंचा ७ । पन्भारा ८ मुम्मुही ९ सायणी १० य दसमा य कालदसा ॥३१॥
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