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 (so) characterized, where the Cūrni inasmuch as it sets the verse aside with the words esā pucchā seems to have doubted its authenticity.
The remaining whole and half lines are Aryās of the type A, and certainly with a greater or lesser metrical perfection - if under this is to be understood amphibrach in the 2nd and 6th feet surrounded by anapaest or spondee in the 1st (here also iamb) and 3rd, 5th and 7th feet. Certain inexactitudes are, as already in the above cases, to be corrected, even if they perhaps do not originate from the tradition but rather are original : 1 ga abhivayayamine 110 abhocca 14a tasatāe 17a 'yam anao (so also the manuscripts) 2 5a sevāi b āsi 1 5b cãei 3 4a karenti (=causative; kao inserted for the sake of clarification). 6 Omāna -? 12a uccālīya 1 16a is to be scanned as kriyām, 2 15a as bhagavam. 1 10a finds itself in order when the verse-halves are located differently and instead of Nai-sue something like Nāe (compare 12, 19) or vīre is inserted (the same in b, see above); then gadhiã is to be read here. The present location (of the verse-halves) is favoured by lines like 41, 14f with addakkhū at the end.
This distinction between the lines of a more and a less perfect metrical make-up --- which I would briefly call A, and A, - is not a stale affair but gains in significance so soon as one considers the content more precisely. The verse-pairs 1 2f on the one hand 4 and 22 on the other stand in contradiction to each other. According to 2f Mahāvira has, in the winter, either renounced clothing or - and this is the more probable meaning - declined the offer of a new cloth, whereupon he, putting on the old one, is plagued by the vermins over there for more than four months. On the other hand, according to the second verse-pair he after his pravrajyā, which according to Acāranga II 15 22 took place in the first month of the winter, has retained the same garment for thirteen months and given it up only in the second month of the second winter, from then onwards going without cloth. These verses with contents incapable of mutual assimilation exhibit the following metrical picture : A, is present in 2a 3ab, A, in 2b; from the other side, A, in 22, A, in 4ab 22b (here beginning as Tristubh). Thus, to judge from the occurrence of A, the first pair is metrically more perfect than the second. Of the same type A, are, in the first Uddeśa, the lines 5a 6a 7b 8b 10a (see above) 114-15a 16a 17b 19ab. Now it will certainly not do to set these A, lines as against A-, B- and C-lines in a body; indeed, already in our example A, occurs on both sides. But a closer inspection reveals that two collections at least have been worked out into one another : the one made up of the lines