Jain Journal 1980 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

Page 17

OCTOBER, 1980
and formalized, its precise mechanism involving rddhis came to be neglected, for these rddhis had been necessary for the karma specialists in logically establishing the minute processes of destroying all the types of karmas in the four stages of śukla dhyāna. The rddhi called 14 purvadharatva came to be forgotten sooner or later along with the other rddhis (for no one but Umasvati refers to the rddhis as such), and the content of the Purva assumed by the then church authorities in the later canonical period sunk into oblivion in the post-canonical age. Thus, the Purva came to be regarded by the post-cononical authors as the source of 12 Angas.