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According to Svetambara tradition at present 11 Anggamas, 12 Upngas, 6 Chedasktras, 4 Mulasktras, 10 Prakirnakas and 2 Chuliksktras are available. This canonical literature restored through five councils. The first council has met at Ptaliputra after the 150 years of Mahvira's Parinirvna, under the leadership of Sthulibhadra. The second council has taken place at mountain Kumari in 2nd Century B.C. in Orissa, which was organized by the king Kharavela. The third and fourth councils took place at Mathura and Vallabhi simultaneously in 3rd century A.D. under the leadership of Skandila and Ngrguna respectively, till the third and fourth councils canon had been retain orally, It is in the fifth council at Vallabhi in Gujarat in the year C 453 or 466, under the leadership of Devardhigani, after the final editing, canon had been given written form.
The composition of commentary literature on the canonical works had been begun from 3rd century A.D. First of all, on the canon, Niryuktis were written, The word jain Literature in Präkrit Poetry they deals with the technical terms of the canon along with does not mean only the some information regarding the subject matter of that particular work.
Jain religious and After Niryuktis, Bhsyas and Curnis had been written respectively. They discuss philosophical literature. It the subject matter of canonical works in detail with some concrete examples. also includes the secular Where as the Bhsyas had been written in Präkrit Poetry, the Curnis were Literature written by Jain written in Prakrit prose mixed with Sanskrit. The Bhsyas and Curnis, were
seers and scholars. Thus written in 5th and 7th century respectively. After Curnis, Tikäs, Vrattis and Vivaranas had been written in Sanskrit language. These Sanskrit it covers a very vast area. commentaries were writers by Haribhadra (8th Century), Silnka (9th Century), It includes various Abhayadeva (11th Century), Malayagiri (12th Century), Sntisuri and some branches of lenowledge, other Svetambar Acryas. In Digambara tradition Virasena and Jinasena (9th and 10th Century) had written the commentaries on Kasyapahuda and
such as metaphysics, Satkhandgama namely Dhavala, Jayadhavala and Mahdhavala.
ethics, epistemology,
Logic, cosmology, Among the Jain philosophical works Tattvrthasktra written in Sanskrit with its
"biology, physics, autocommnetary by Umaswati (3rd-4th Century A.D.) is the pioneer one. chemistry, mathematics, On this various commentaries had been written in both the sects. In geology, geography, Swetambara tradition Siddhasena Gani (7th Century) and Haribhadra (8th
history, astronomy, and
history, astr Century) and in Digambara tradition Pujyapada (6th Century), Akalanka (8th Century) and Vidhyanandi (9th Century) wrote the commentaries on it.
astrology, various arts, After the Tattvrthasktra, among Jain philosophical literature Siddhasena's
architecture, grammar, Sanmatitarka and Niyyvatra, Samantabhadra's ptamimms Mallavadi's Linguistics, medical Dvdasranayacakra, Haribhadra's Anekntajayapataka, Satdarshanasam
sciences and so on. mucaya and Sastravetsammuchya, Akalanka's Niyayaviniscaya, Vidyanandi's Astasahasri, Prabha candra's Prameyamamalmartanda, Vadidevasuri's Pramnanayatattvloka and Syadvdaratnkara, Mallisena's Syadvdamanjari had been written, which are the important works of this category.
So far as the literature on Karma-philosophy is concerned after the Kasyaphuda and Satkhandgama the main works are Kammapayadi, six
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