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
From the above survey we come to the conclusion that 12 Angas were no doubt composed but the difference of opinion exists with regard to their order of composition, some believing Ayara to be the first and Diṭṭhivaya to be the last, whereas others believing Diṭṭhivaya to be the first and Ayāra, Suyagaḍa and other Angas as following it.
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This finishes the question about the composition of 12 Angas but there remains one more knotty problem to be tackled before we can finish the discussion about the genesis of the dvadaśāngi. It refers to the order of the composition of the various sections of Diṭṭthivaya. As already noted on p. 7 there are five sections of this Diṭṭhivāya viz. (1) Parikamma, (2) Sutta (at times used in plural), (3) Puvvagaya, (4) Aṇuöga and (5) Cūliyā. Now we find that these 5 sections are mentioned in two different orders in the religious works of the Jainas. For instance, Nandi mentions the five sections in the order noted above whereas some works such as Hemacandra Suri's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (II, 160)1, Devendra Suri's com. (p. 17)2 on his own work Kammavivāya (v. 6), Vinayavijaya Upādhyāya's Lokaprakāśa (III, 792)3 and Akalanka's Tattvārtharājavārtika (p. 51)+ assign to Puvvagaya the 4th place rather than the 3rd, and to Anuöga, the 3rd place instead of the 4th, the order of the rest being the same as before. This means that we have two orders as under:
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I (1) Parikamma, (2) Sutta, (3) Puvvagaya, (4) Anuöga and (5) Culiyā.
II (1) Parikamma, (2) Sutta, (3) Anuöga, (4) Puvvagaya and (5) Cūliyā.
" परिकर्म - सूत्र - पूर्वानुयोग- पूर्वगत - चूलिकाः पञ्च ।
स्युर्दृष्टिवादभेदाः पूर्वाणि चतुर्दशापि पूर्वगते ॥ १६० ॥"
“परिकम्म १ सुत्त २ पुव्वाणुओग ३ पुव्वगय ४ चूलिया ५ एवं ।
पण दिट्ठवायभेया चउदस पुव्वाइं पुव्वगयं ॥"
Herein there is the same verse as noted above in fn. 1.
“स पंचविधः परिकर्म सूत्रं प्रथमानुयोगः पूर्वगतं चूलिके चेति । "
Taking this reference together with those noted above in fn. 1-2, we see that instead of Aṇuöga (Sk. Anuyoga), we have its synonyms Puvvāṇuöga (Sk. Pūrvānuyoga) and Prathamanuyoga (Pr. Padhamāņuöga).