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
For a Tristubh-(Jagatī-)line the characteristic positions are, in the 11(12) syllable schema, the 3rd and the gth to 11th (124) syllables which always (with the exception of the 3rd in 6,29 and 24,10) are either short or have the form - U - - (or U -). The remaining syllables are handled freely. Deviations from the schema have, however, aggregated themselves in three definite types of lines (the parallels being counted only once) :
(1) The 6th and 7th syllables, both regularly short, have been combined into a long one. The cesure then stands after the 5th syllable. 6,2 7,7 9,19 (citation within the Prose-Style) 9,1 12,9 14,21 16,3.5 18,9 22,20 23,12 (Jagatī). 18 30,16. 27(a better variant to 15, see p.56). Before this long syllable a short one stands in 12,26 19, 11.26, after it in 24. 9. instead of it in 30, 15. The total number of such cases is 19 - as against 7 each in the Sūtrakrtānga and Uttaradhyayana, 2 in the Daśavaikālika (9 3.60 12 7y).
(2) The 5th syllable of the schema is short so that three short ones appear in succession. 6,28 (Jagati) 13,9 18,12 f. 17 (if one reads ya) 19,24 [21,22 according to my surmise] 23,6 (Jagati) 28,9 30,18 : in all
ases – as against as many in the Sūtraktänga, 7 in the Uttaradhyayana, 1 in the Daśavaikälika (8 400 = 9 1.12B = 2.3a).
(3) The line has an extra syllable after which we have the cesure which in the schema comes after the 4th 9,9 13,14f. 19,13 [22,16 according to my surmise] 24,13 32,23 : in all 7 cases as against just 2 in the Sūtrakrtānga (I 13 238 II 6 210).
In connection with the śloka which, like the Triştubh and the Jagati, exhibits no lack of non-uniformities and extra syllables, we take into consideration the 7th syllable in its occurrence as short in all odd pāda, as long in the even. While making this distinction let us remark that in a number of cases there has to be posited an exchange of pādas : 3, 12 can better follow 10 than 11, 4,22 can come only after 23, 19,30 20,12 28,16 follow the respective preceding lines, as it seems, on account of their respective annexes, 14,4$ 20,7 28,4 31,23 do so on some other ground. Only in 40, 1 do we have before us a case where the two pādas have in fact exchanged their characteristic features. Outside these passages the 7th syllable is long in an even pāda four times (twice each in the Sūtrakrtānga and Daśavaikālika, thrice in the Uttaradhyayana.) On the contrary, in an odd pāda it is, not taking into consideration the above cases, short 31 times (in the Sūtrakrtānga 12