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anga texts; and that recourse was had to Bhadrabahu when the collection of the 11 angas was perfected. To this circamstance then we must ascribe the fact that the "púrvar" are placed at the end and not at the beginning of the whole collection. But, (346) according to this very tradition, at that time, on the one hand, there were no longer 14 but 10 púrvas, the knowledge of which was further disseminated, and, on the other, the púrvas do not appear as a part of the ditthivaa but as the ditthivaa itself. Both of these statements of tradition are contradicted by & locus classicus which, in default of the text itself, affords, together with the detailed table of contents in anga 4 and Nandi, information concerning the ditthivaa. Anga 6 and the Nandi, our sources of information, are here in complete agreement, but in the table of contents of the other angas the Nandi is much briefer than anga 4. The contradiction is this : (1) there is not even the slightest difference made between pårvas 1-10 and 11-14 ; and (2) all the 14 púrvas are cited as a mere section-the third part-of the disthivda.
As regards the latter circumstance, it may be stated that in the Siddhanta itself, though in late texts, we find several times the peculiar fact, that, in case a collective enumeration of the angas is attempted, and the first member, whether it be sámáia or ayúra, and the last, are men. tioned, this last member does not appear as ditthiváa butas viilusára. See above, p. 244, 245. Vimdasara is the title of the last of the fourteen púrvas. It is certainly very remarkable that the title of a section (and vindusára must be considered to be sach in this connection as in others) is cäordinated with that of an independent text. As regards these passages it is impossible to assume [347] that the ditthivda at that time exceeded this seotion in extent. This constitutes an important divergence from the presentation of the subject in anga 4, or N., in which latter the vindusdra, as the last section of the third part, is followed by two additional parts, Hêmachandra, who in his treatment of the drishtivada (abhidh. v. 245, 246), cites the pirva (gata) as its fourth, and not as its third part, affords us only such assistance as confirms the divergence in question. Since the fifth part of the drishtivada consists of so-called chilikas, which are a secondary addition, the dirthivda, acoording to Hêmachandra's treatments too, actually concludes with the virdusdra section,
So much is clear :That that conception which limits the ditthivda to the 14 puvvas alone is too narrow. We find a recogaition of the other constituent parts of the ditthivaa also in those statements of the scholia, in which (cf. p. 258) "púrvdni sammaty-ddikas cha" (annyôgah) are mentioned instead of the ditthivía referred to in the text. See Av. nijj. 8, 54. By saimaty. adikah (anuy.) we are probably to understand the first parts of anga 12, though the order has been inverted,
[348] To the statements made, p. 212 foll., in reference to the gradual deoline of the knowledge of the puvvas, I add the following :-In the kAlasattari of Dhammaghôsa? verse 38 foll., Thûlabhadda is referred to the year Vira 215; and there still existed in the time of Vaïra 584 (Vis) 10, in that of Dubbalia 616 (Vira), 9) puvvas. In the scholiast on the passage and in KI. 2476 the latter name is cited as Durbalik-Pashpaloshya)mitra; in the Berlin scholiast on the Nandi, introduct. v. 32, as Darvalikapushpa (shya), he and his teacher Aryarakshita being called the two navapurvinau. In the year 1000 the entire puvvagayam was "gayam."
Let us now turn to the locus classicus itself. Its statements are unfortunately not clear and in fact were unintelligible to the scholiasts of both texts (Abhayadêva on anga 4, and Anon. on Nandi). They both assert with tolerable unanimity that, inasmuch as the text itself was
In Hemsohan lea's treatment of the subjeot there are other minute divergences from the statements in anga 4, or Nandl; on which see below.
Sammati 1) " opinion," "view," in the St. Petersb. Dict., i.e., synonymous with drishti. Leumann tells me that Slanka, too, on anga 1, 1, 8, refers to sammaty Adau a discussion on the 7 naya (800 below p. 352), and was in DORReRSion of text of that name before him: of. Also the eammatieritti, below p. 871.
Dhammaghosasuri, scholar (v. 74) of Davinde, died accord. to Kl. 265a Samvat 1857. This does not agree with Kalas. v. 4 foll, where in general the same prophetic statements are found as in Satrushj. Mah. 14, 390 foll. (See my Treatise, p. 47.) These statements contain the dates 1912 and 1850 Vira (1.6. Sazivat 142 and 1380).
