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 Visesão. This Kotyācārya is identified by some as śīlānka Sūri, the commentator of Ayāra etc. But this view is challenged by Anandasāgara Sūri in his intro. (p. 3) to Part II of Visesão edited by him with Kotyācārya's com. Maladhārin Hemacandra Sūri, too, has written a com. on Visesão. 1
The Bhāsa on Dasaveyāliya comprises about 63 verses, and that on Uttarajjhayana 452 verses.
For Kappa, there are two Bhāsas small and big. The former is composed by Sanghadāsa Gani Ksamāśramana and contains about 6600 gāthās. The latter is anonymous, and its extent is 8600 ślokas or so. This latter Bhāsa appears to be preceded by the corresponding Cunni and Visehacuņņi.4
There seem to be two Pañcakappabhāsas (vide p. 41). Out of them the authorship of the bigger one is attributed to Sanghadāsa Gani Ksamāśramana." It comprises about 2574 verses.
The available Bhāsa on Vavahāra is printed. It is anonymous and consists of about 4629 verses.
In Jainagranthāvali (p. 10) there are noted two Nisīhabhāsas. Out of them, one having about 6439 verses is anonymous. But it may be that either this work or the bigger one is composed by Jinabhadra Gani? Ksamāśramana. Muni Kalyanavijaya in his Gujarati introduction (p. 48) to Prabhāvakacaritra says that either this Bhāsa itself or a metrical composition expounding Nistha may be the work of Siddhasena Diväkara. He further says on p. 49 that this Siddhasena seems to have
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1 In this com. (p. 649) on v. 1508, he has mentioned Bhadrabahunimitta,
Nandasamhita and Kapilīya. The last two are once more mentioned in the com.
on v. 1509 where even the name of Manu occurs. 2 Two gāthās of this Bhāsa are noted in Vādivetāla sānti Sūri's com. (p. 181a) on
Uttarajjhayaņa where on p. 178b Pañcakappa is referred to. 3-4 See DCGCM (vol. XVII, pt. II, p. 254).. 5-6 Ibid., p. 261. 7 in his Visesão, v. 235 begins with
gà." This very verse and the illustrations here referred to occur in Nisīhabhāsa. This is borne out by
Kotyācārya's com. (p. 95) on Visesão where he says: "qara su fagfter 7 14:". • Further, the 1st hemistich of this verse occurs in Jiyakappacuņņi (p. 29). 8 See DCGCM (vol. XVII, pt. III, p. 468).