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
Dasāsuyakkhandhanijjutti - This contains 154 verses distributed over the 10 sections of Dasāsuyakkhandha as under :
11, 3, 10, 7, 4, 11, 8, 6, 7, 8 and 15.
Thus it will be seen that the Nijjutti on the 8th section viz. Pajjosaņākappa is the biggest as compared with those of the rest.
Kappanijutti-This is mixed up with its Bhāsa, at least since the time of Malayagiri Sūri. Pañcakappa is associated with it. This name Pañcakappa occurs in Avassayacunni (Pt. I, p. 415) and in Mala Sūri's com. (p. 83) on v. 2742 of Kappanijjutti mixed up with Kappabhāsa. Two Pañcakappabhāsas and Pañcakappacunni are avilable. There is no mention of Pañcakappanijjutti probably because its verses have got mixed up with those of either of the two Pañcakappabhāsas. I am inclined to equate the above-noted Pañcakappa with Pañcakappanijjutti and consider the former name as the abbreviation of the latter. On this understanding I have attributed its authorship to Bhadrabāhusvämin on p. 41.
Pañcakappa as its very name suggests, deals with five kappas which are the five varieties of bhāvakalpa noted in fn. 1 on this page. I think the exposition of these varieties was reserved by Bhadrabāhusvāmin for being treated as a separate work on the following grounds:
(i) This exposition was going to be a detailed one.3 (ii) It could be safely dropped from Kappanijjutti. Vavahāranijjutti---This is on the same footing as Kappanijjutti.
Nisihanijutti—It is from the Visehacunni of Nisiha that we know about the existence of this work. It points out some of its verses and attributes their authorship to Bhadrabāhusvāmin. It has been practically superseded by Nisīhabhāsa wherein these verses have got amalgamated.
Before we proceed further and examine the order of the Nijjuttis we may note :
(i) Ohanijjutti and Pindanijjutti are not separate Nijjuttis. 1. "HT464: 'Talagt:' aya1: 16311...ga Taifa Takt: 30 CEST JOHT:" 2. "foar harag ar ghfar aftasta u arrit Jafa funt Hoodet strict #1176811" 3. In Brhattipanikā, the extent of Pañcakappa is noted as 1113- ślokas.