History of Jaina Monachism

Author(s): S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute

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S. B. DEO (c) The Anuyogas :
Besides the above texts, the Digambaras have a classification of four texts going under the name of the Anuyogas. They also like to term them as "the four Vedas.” WINTERNITZ, however, designates it by a better phrase when he calls it as 'a substitute Canon.'95 Though this classification based on the subject matter is pretty old and adopted even in the Svetāmbara tradition, the enumeration of texts under each heading is only modern.
These Anuyogas are divided into four groups:
(a) Prathamānuyoga- In this group, works of legendary nature are included. They consist of the Padmapurāna, Trişaştilaksanap', Mahāp', Harivamśapo, and Uttarapurāņa.
(b) Karaṇānuyoga—Works regarding the nature of the universe, the planets etc., viz. Süryaprajnapti, Candrapo, and Jayadhavalā.
(c) Dravyānuyoga—In this category all works of philosophical nature are included. They are by scholars like Kundakunda (beginning of the Christian era),96 Umāsvāti,97 and Samantabhadra (8th cent. A.D.).
(d) Caranānuyoga-This contains works on the rules of monastic conduct like Mülācāra and Trivarnācāra of Vațţakera (c. beginning of the Christian era),98 and Ratnakaranda-Śrävakācāra of Samantabhadra. (8th cent. A.D.). The Basis of Co-ordination :
A study of the list of the texts forming the canon and its supplement as given by the Digambaras, brings to prominence certain points which may well serve as the basis for finding out a common ground for both these sects.
The following items may be noted in this connection:
(1) We have seen that the tradition about the Angas and the fourteen Pūrvās is common to both these sects, and they hold the Angas in equal esteem and reverence.
(2) Over and above the Angas, we have marked the similarity of the names of some of the texts of the Angabāhiras of the Digambaras and the Mūlasūtras and the Chedasūtras of the Svetāmbaras.
(3) In the case of the contents also, some of the texts of the Digambaras and the Svetāṁbaras possibly agree. Instead of looking to all similari
95. op. cit., p. 474. 96. UPADHYE, Pravacanasāra, Intr. p. XXII.
97. For his date, see WINTERNITZ, op. cit., pp. 578. He seems to be earlier than Siddhasena Diwākara.
98. WINTERNITZ, op.cit., p. 477.