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
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recited 55 ajjhayaņas (adhyayanas) dealing with the fructification of punya (merit), 55 pertaining to the fructification of pāpa (demerit), 36 though unasked, and one more named as Pahāna? (Sk. Pradhana). We do not know whether he did or did not inform the audience as to whose compositions they were. Hence the problem before us is of deciding their authorship. Roughly speaking, we may attribute the authorship of all these 147 ajjhayanas to Lord Mahāvīra; but even then the question as to whether any one of these adhyayanas is incorporated in the existing canon, remains practically unsolved. Same is the case with 54 topics expounded by Mahāvīra and mentioned in Samavāya (s. 54).
One may be tempted to believe that some of the ajjhayaņas of Vivāga suya, the latter portion of Ovaväiya and the like may have something to do with some of these 110 ajjhayaņas. This is explained in Subodhikā (p. 125b) as below : "प्रधानं नाम एकं मरुदेव्यध्ययनं"
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