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
transmitted by the Acara-niryukti appears to contain nothing from which one could derive some special knowledge helpful to mgical powers. The general content is given in Niryukti 34 as moha-samutthā parīsah'uvasaggā, the special one by the 71 uddeśas 253-63, see the Acaranga-edition Calcutta 1881, p. 435f. Then we have in six verses yet further discussions as to the constituent elements of the title but, unlike the practice elsewhere, there does not follow a deeper probe into the subject-matter of the chapter. While this already permits supposition that the author of the niryukti had not himself seen the Mahaparinnā, I conclude the same from the surprisingly detailed character of his table of contents and ask whether his sources could not have given him such a report as went beyond facts.]
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8. Vimoho
A. Prose-Style: A monk's services rendered to another monk and to a layman (1.2 :) 32, 25, 33, 2.4(pantham)-6. (7.8:) 34, 31. 35, 4. (3.4:) 36, 22-27. (5-6:) 38, 13-19.
[[As one sees, the order in which these passages are now placed is not the same as they follow in conformity to their contents. The understanding that I have of the matter, can be most clearly presented through a translation.
"(1) [A monk] cannot convey or offer food etc. to some [other] monk or some layman, nor can he offer services to the latter in case while doing so he undertakes [calculating] consideration in respect of (these) others.
(2) He can do so and in this connection can [even] trace back a portion of his path or deviate from his path, can interrupt his ascetic exertion and can [as it were] leave the state of peace to re-enter that of [worldly] helter-skelter in case while doing so he does not undertake [calculating] consideration in respect of others.
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(3) A monk for whom the following stipulation obtains: "I, when approached by someone whom I have not sought for, in case of illness
and in case I have the wish shall let a healthy fellow-monk offer a service to me; again, on my part, I, in a state of health approaching a 1. Devraja wrongly mentions 16.