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 According to the other definition, that śruta which exists in every tīrtha - in short which is niyata, is anga-pavittha, and the rest of the śruta is ananga-pavittha.It may be noted that Anandasāgara Sūri has recently propounded a view in Siddkacakra (IV, 8, p. 175)2 that even a Ganadhara can be an author of the ananga-pavittha works, and thus Avassaya, though coming under the class of ananga-pavittha, is a work composed by a Ganadhara. If this view is accepted, it follows that though the author of anga-pavittha is none else but Gañadhara, the author of anangapavittha is a Ganadhara and a non-Ganadhara as well. Furthermore, in Siddhacakra (IV, 8, p. 175) he has said that anangapavittha may be also associated with a question from a Gañadhara. But this is an erroneous statement as can be seen from Malayagiri Sūri's com. (p. 48b)3 on Avassaya where it is distinctly stated that anangapavittha has nothing to do with a question or questions of a Ganadhara, though it may be however the outcome of a question or questions from some one else or that without any body asking a question to a Tirthankara, he himself may have expounded a subject, and later on, it may have been embodied in words by some devotee of his. As regards the genesis of anga-pavittha, there are no such option; for, it after all originates from the nisadyās and tripadī.4 1 "इच्चेतस्स सुतपुरिसस्स जं सुतं अंगभागठितं तं अंगपविट्ठ भणई, जं पुण एतस्सेव सुतपुरिसस्स बइरेगे ठितं अंगबाहिरं
ति भण्णति, अहवा गणहरकयमंगगतं जं कतं थेरेहिं बाहिरं तं च । णियतं अंगपविट्ठ अणिययसुतं बाहिरं भणितं ॥"
- Cunni (p. 47) on Nandi. The 550th verse of Visesāvassayabhāsa may be also referred to. It runs as under :
"गणहरथेरकयं वा आएसा मुक्कवागरणो वा । धुवचलविसेसओ वा अंगाणंगेसु नाणत्तं ॥ ५५० ॥ 2 For the pertinent portion see my Gujarāti work Árhata āgamonum avalokana yāne
Tattvarasikacandrikā (Pt. I, p. 63). 3 "वारत्रयं गणधरपृष्टेन सता भगवता तीर्थकरेण यत् प्रोच्यते 'उप्पनेइ वा, विगमेइ वा धुवेइ वा' इति पदत्रयं तदनुसृत्य यन्निष्पन्नं
तदङ्गप्रविष्ट, यत् पुनर्गणधरप्रश्नव्यतिरेकेण शेषकृतप्रश्नपूर्वकं वा भगवतो मुत्कलं व्याकरणं तदधिकृत्य यन्निष्पन्नं जम्बूप्रज्ञप्त्यादि, यच्च वा गणधरवचांस्येवोपजीव्य दृब्धमावश्यकनियुक्त्यादि पूर्वस्थविरैस्तदनङ्गप्रविष्टं यदि वा यत् सर्वतीर्थकरतीर्थेष्वनियतं तदनङ्गप्रविष्ट, सर्वपक्षेषु द्वादशाङ्गान्यङ्गप्रविष्ट, शेषमनङ्गप्रविष्टं" Maladhārin Hemacandra, too, has practically said the same thing as can be seen from the following lines of his com. (p. 298) on Visesāvassayabhāsa: "वारत्रयं गणधरपृष्टस्य तीर्थकरस्य सम्बन्धी य आदेश:-प्रतिवचनमुत्पाद-व्यय-ध्रौव्यवाचकं पदत्रयमित्यर्थः, तस्माद् यद् निष्पन्नं तदङ्गप्रविष्टं द्वादशाङ्गमेव, मुक्तं-मुत्कलं-अप्रश्नपूर्वकं च यद् व्याकरणम्-अर्थप्रतिपादनं तस्माद् निष्पन्नमङ्गबाह्यमभिधीयते, तच्च आवश्यकादिकम् ।"