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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
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interesting that ten, and not five, ajjh. are here -see p. 332 ascribed to each of the first two vargas of the second part of anga 6: dusu dusu vaggêsu kama ajjhayana humti dasa ya chaüppanna | battîsà chau aṭṭha ya dhammakaha bia saakkhamdhê |. The text which we possess does not agree with this allotment of ajjh. The same holds good of the second of these two texts, which bears the name samayarivihi. We read in it the following concerning the first agga: tammi dasa ajjhayanâ, and immediately thereupon vîê dasa ajjhayana. Since this second text is twice at the conclusion of the jógavihi section and at the conclusion of the whole - expressly ascribed to Abhayadêva, or to his oral instruction of the author Paramânanda, it is very surprising that we find such differences between it and the present text, Abhayadêva himself in his commentary commenting upon that text which allots to both vagga only five ajjh. each. If the samáyárivihi appears to be more than two hundred years older than the Vidhiprapa on account of its pretended relation to Abhayadêva (A.D. 1064, above p. 277), [371] the ayaravihi must be regarded as of greater antiquity. Its author refers, at the conclusion of dára 21, "êtâni gurukṛityâni, śravakakṛityam punaḥ śrimad Umâsvâtivâchaka-śrî Haribhadrasûri pratishthakalpâdibhyô 'vasêyam" to two authors considerably before his time. In v. 50, 51 of the Ganadharasârdhasatakam composed by Jinadattasûri, the scholar of Jinavallabha who died A.D. 1112, (see Kl. 248 b), the former of the two authors is called the first teacher after the interval following upon Aryarakshita and Durbalikâpushpa (above p. 348).95 In Sarvarajagani's schol. on the Ganadharasârdhasatakam a érávakaprajnapti is cited among the 500 (or 105?) payaranas (prakarana), composed by him in Sanskrit according to the statement in the text. The title śrávakaprajnapti is in entire harmony with the statement of the yáravili just quoted. According to the Gurvivali of Tapâgacha Kl. 253a (28) there lived au Umâsvâtikara in 1190 Vira (= Samvat 720), who is, however, distinguished from the author of the śrávakaprajnapti (ptyúdi) (yataḥ sammativṛittau, cf. above p. 347, śri Umâsvâtivâchaka ity nktam). The latter is probably, as Klatt kindly informs me, the person of this name who appears in the Bombay MS. of a pattavali of the Vrihat-Kharataragachha, in the continuation of the old Sthaviravali immediately after its last member, Dûshagani, the teacher of Devarddhigani, and separated by one gradation alone from Haribhadra who is mentioned together with him in the úyáravihi. Since the date of Dêvarddhigani is 980 Vîra, and the death of Haribhadra is placed in [372] 1055 Vira, see Kl. 253a (27), tradition seems to place Umâsvâtikara, the author of the śravakaprajnapti, about 1000 Vira ( Samvat 530)! While it is true that the ayaravili does not claim to stand in direct connection with Umâsv. and Haribh., merely citing them, yet this citation is of such a character that it is calculated to afford ancient testimony concerning a treatise which mentions, not sources of information of later date, but merely these two names which are manifestly of tolerable antiquity. The statements contained in this work gain consequently in authority; and the same conclusion holds good of the information of a literary and other nature in harmony therewith, contained in both sâmâchârî texts (sa vihi and vihipavâ). In continuing from this point on to adduce the testimony of the Vidhiprapa (V) especially, I do so, partly because it has a fixed date, and partly because it contains the most detailed statements. I shall, however, not fail to state where Ayâravihi (Avi.) or Sâmâyârîvihi (Svi.), which takes an intermediate position between Avi. and V. as regards fullness, offer anything worthy of particular note.
94 siri Abhayadeva sûriguruvayana mayam maê êyam | Paramapaidena kayan éri Abhayadevasûrêr isyasaröruhavihâriņi (?) patrê | sâmâchâri rûmart (?) Paramânaindât padami chakrê ||
95 The very faulty MS. reproduces the Umâsâyi of the text by Umåsvami in the commentary! This form of the name is found elsewhere, e.g., in the Vicharâmṛitasaingraha as that of the author of the śrâ pti.
