History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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GENESIS OF THE JAINA SCRIPTURES that the 12 Angas were composed in the following order :
(1) Āyāra, (2) Sūyagada, (3) Thāņa, (4) Samavāya, (5) Viāhapaņņatti, (6) Nāyādhammakahā, (7) Uvāsagadasā, (8) Antagadadasā, (9) Aņuttarovavāïyadasā, (10) Panhāvāgaraņa, (11) Vivāgasuya and (12) Ditthivāya.
Others maintain that 14 Puvvas which make up Puvvagaya, one of the 2five sections of Ditthivāya, were first composed, and they were followed by the composition of the rest of the dvādaśāngi.3 There is no explicit statement, so far as I know, which says that on 14 Puvvas being composed the remaining portion of Ditthivaya was composed, and then the 11 Angas commencing with Ayāra and ending with Vivāgasuya. But this seems to be the natural course to have been followed; for, it is too much to believe that the composition of the 14 Puvvas was immediately followed by that of the 11 Angas, thus leaving the remaining 4 sections of Ditthivaya to be attended to, last. 1 These are the titles of 12 Angas. Angas 6 to 11 have their titles in plural. So
some mention them in the nominative as Nāyādhammakahão, Uvāsagada sāo, Antagadadasão, Anuttarovavāïya da são and Panhāvāgaraņāim. See Samavāya
(s. 136) and Nandi (s. 45). 2 The pertinent portion in Nandi (s. 57) which mentions these five sections is :
“दिट्ठिवाए णं सव्वभावपरूवणा आघविजइ, से समासओ पंचविहे पन्नत्ते, तं जहा - परिकम्मे १ सुत्ताइ २ पुव्वगए ३
अणुओगे ४ चूलिआ ५॥" 3 Cf. the following lines of the Cunni (pp. 56-57) on Nandi :
“से किं तं पुनगयं ? कम्हा पुव्वगतं ति ? उच्यते - जम्हा तित्थकरो तित्थपवत्तणकाले गणहरा सव्वसुत्ताधारत्तणतो पुव्वं पुव्वगतसुत्तत्थं भासइ तम्हा 'पुव्वं ति भणिता, गणहरा सत्तरयणं करेन्ता आयाराइरयणं करेंति ठवेंति य, अण्णायरियमतेणं पुण पुव्वगतसुत्तत्थो पुव्वं अरहता भासियो गणहरेहि वि पुव्वगयं चेव पुव्वं रइयं पच्छा आयाराइ । एवमुत्तो चोदक आह - णणु पुव्वावरविरुद्धं, कम्हा ? आयारणिजुत्तीए भणितं-'सव्वेसिं आचारो' गाहा, आचार्य आह - सत्यमुक्तं किन्तु ठावणा, इमं पुण अक्खररयणं पडुच्च भणितं, पुव्वं पुव्वा कता इत्यर्थः" । Malayagiri Sūri has reproduced this very view in his com. (p. 240b) on Nandi. Abhayadeva Súri, too, has done the same as can be seen from his com. (pp. 130b-131a) on Samavāya. Siddhasena Súri has also endorsed this very view in his com. (p. 208b) on Pavayaņasăruddhāra. In Siddhasena Gani's bhāsyūnusāriņi ţikā (p. 94) on Tattvārtha (1, 20) and in Trişasti (X, 5, 172) only one view is mentioned i.e. to say 14 Purvas were first composed. Anyhow we can see that there have been two views propounded in this connection at least as early as the date of the Cunni referred to on p. 4.