History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE AGAMAS
25 This finishes a discussion about anga-pavittha and ananga-pavittha. So we shall now deal with the divisions of the latter. They are : (1) āvassaya and (ii) āvassaya-vaüritta. Out of these āvassaya has six sub-divisions viz, (i) sāmāïya, (ii) caüvīsatthava, (iii) vandanaya, (iv) padikkamaņa, (v) kāüssagga and (vi) paccakkhāņa, whereas āvassayavaüritta has two viz. (i) kāliya and (ii) ukkāliya. Before we mention the various works coming under the categories of kāliya and ukkāliya, we may present the results of this dichotomy in a tabular form as under :
Suyanāna
Anga-pavittha
Ananga-pavittha or Anga-bāhira
Avassaya
Āvassaya-vaïritta
Kāliya
Ukkāliya
Sāmāïya Caüvīsatthava Vandanaya Padikkamaņa Kāüssagga Paccakkhāņa
From this discussion, it will be seen that there are four principal divisions of the sacred canon of the Jainas viz. (1) angapavittha, (2) āvassaya, (3) kāliya and (4) ukkāliya. Leaving aside the six subdivisions of āvassaya, we may define käliya and ukkāliya as under:
That śruta which is studied-recited during the first and last 2 paurusīs3 Here, instead of tripadi we have its synonym padatraya. Malayagiri Süri, in his com. (p. 3a) on Jivābhigama has used the phrase mātņkāpadatraya as can be seen from the following line :
"भगवान् हि वर्द्धमानस्वामी....एतन्मातृकापदत्रयमुक्तवान्–उप्पनेइ वा विगमेइ वा धुवेइ वा" ___ “से किं तं अंगबाहिरं ? अंगबाहिरं दुविहं पण्णत्तं, तं जहा-आवस्सयं च आवस्सयवइरित्तं च । से किं तं आवस्सयं ?
आवस्सयं छव्विहं पण्णत्तं, तं जहा-सामाइअंचउवीसत्थवो वंदणयं पडिक्कमणं काउस्सग्गो पच्चक्खाणं, सेत्तं आवस्सयं । से
for 3 ataskai? 347964aşka çfar courri, † 561f731 a selft31 a/" - Nandi (s. 44) 2 Malayagiri in his com. (p. 205a) on Nandi says:
“सर्वस्यापि वस्तुनो यदा स्वप्रमाणच्छाया जायते तदा पौरुषी भवति" Thus it means the period that elapses from sun-rise to the time when the shadow
of an object is equal to its height. In short it practically comes to about 3 hours. 3 In Uttarajjhayana (XXVI) it is said :