History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

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

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Bhāṣya (p. 94), we come across the following line:
“ उपाङ्गानि 1 राजप्रसेनकीयोपपातिकादीनि"
THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
This very line occurs in Haribhadra Suri's com. (p. 76b) on Tattvärtha (I, 21) and its Bhāṣya.
From this it follows that these two commentators look upon the 2nd and 1st Uvangas as Upangas and include some more works in the same group; but unfortunately we do not know as to what they are. One more point worth noting in this connection is that the order of the first two Uvangas as mentioned by both of these commentators of Tattvärtha, differs from that noted before. Can we therefore infer that here the order is immaterial and enumeration the main object? Or is it that in the time of these commentators Rajaprasenakīya was looked upon as the 1st Uvanga and Aupapātika as the 2nd, and subsequently2 the order was reversed? I am not in a position to give a final answer to these questions at present (vide p. 146 fn1). So leaving them aside I may note that at least by the time the Bhāṣya on Tattvārtha was composed, a certain class of works was no doubt designated as Upanga,3 and the same was the case at least by the time when Nirayāvalīsuyakkhandha was composed.4
1. This name Rajaprasenakiya is rather unique, and the same is the case with the name Rajaprasenajit occurring in Devendranarakendraprakarana composed by Municandra Suri, the guru of Vädin Deva Suri; for, usually, in Samskṛta we come across the name Rajapraśniya. It may however be added that the Samskṛta equivalent of Rayapa seṇaïya, a name occurring in some of the Mss. of Nandi may be Rajaprasenakiya on the analogy of prakirnaka for painnaga.
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The name Rayappaseṇaijja (Sk. Rajaprasenakiya) occurs in the cunni (Pt. I, p. 142) on Avassaya.
Hemacandra considers Aupapātika as the 1st. This is what can be inferred from his com. (p. 104) on Abhidhānacintamani (II, 159). There he says:
" इत्येकादश प्रवचनपुरुषस्य अङ्गानीवाङ्गानि सहोपात्रैः औपपातिकादिभिर्वर्तन्ते सोपाङ्गानि ”
3. “ तस्य महाविषयत्वात् तांस्तानर्थानधिकृत्य प्रकरणसमाप्त्यपेक्षमङ्गोपाङ्गनानात्वम्.... अन्यथा ह्यनिबद्धमङ्गोपाङ्गशः Aysgarvaa great❞— Bhāṣya (p. 94) on Tattvärtha.
4. “ उवंगाणं मंते ! समणेणं, जाव संपत्तेणं के अट्ठे पन्नत्ते ? ॥ ३ ॥ एवं खलु जंबू ! समणेणं एवं उवंगाणं पंच वग्गा पन्नत्ता, तं जहा - निरयावलियाओ १ कप्पवडिंसियाओ २ पुप्फियाओ ३ पुप्फचूलियाओ ४ वहिदसाओ ५ ।” (pp. 3-4)
Did all these 5 vaggas form one text originally, and were they separately counted subsequently?