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recitation of the anga--see Bhagay. 1,377-8, a subject which is treated of at great length in the Vidhi prapā.64 I now proceed to an examination of each of the anga texts.
I. The first anga has, in its existing form, the name āyāra, ācāra, or ayārapakappam65 and treats [251] in two suakkhaṁdhas, śrutaskandas of the manner of life of a bhikkhu.66 The first śrutask., bambhacerāim, brahmacaryāņi, contains at present eight ajjhayaņas with 44 uddesagas, the second : 16 ajjh. and 34 udd. It is however definitely stated that the first śrutask, contained previously not 8 but 9 ajjh. and the whole anga consequently not 24, but 25 ajjh. and not 78, but 8 udd. Cf. especially in arga 4 $ 25 and $ 85 and the detailed re'sume' of the 12 anga found both there and in the Nandi. In $ 25, where the titles of the 25 ajjh, are enumerated one by one, we find the name mahāparinnā, belonging to this ajjh, which is no longer extant placed in the ninth place between 1, 8 and 2, 187* ; and the same circumstance may be noticed as occurring in Avašy. 16,112 fg. More exact information is found in the Vidhi prapă according to Āvasy. 8, 46-49. Here we find that Vajrasvămin (presumably 584 Vira) extracted 8 from it the āgāsagāmiņi vijjā ; and from the fact that it contained exaggerations (? säisayattaņeņa ; according to Leumann, on account of the excellence of this extract) it was lost, or rather continued to exist only in the nijjuti. It was the opinion of Silamka (A.D. 876) that it occupied not the ninth but the eighth place.69 This latter statement is incorrect,70* for [252] in the existing commentary of Silamka?1 the
64 The names of the single ajjhayanas and the number of the uddesagas etc. are speci
fically enumerated in the Vidhiprapā: anga 1, 50 days; 2,30; 3,18; 4,18; 5,77 (a second statement, it seems, allots 6 months 6 days) 6,33; 7,14; 8,12; 9,7; 10,14; 11,24. In like manner the author examines and states the number of days necessary for certain work ; avassaya (8 days), dasavealia (15), uttar ajjhayana (39) nisiha (10), dasākappavavahāra (20 or 22), mahānisiha (45). A recapitulation in
68 āryās" concludes the discussion; jogavihānas nāma payaraşar. 65 See above. p. 223, 224; this is to be studied in the third year after the diksā. 66 Teaching sacred observances after the practice of Vāśiştha (!) and other saints,
Wilson. Sel. works 1,284 ed. Rost. 67* According to Malayagiri and the Prakrit authority quoted by him (Nandis. p. 425)
between 1,7 and 1,8 (ohānas.)-L. 68 From this it seems as if its contents touched upon the subject of magic. Was this
the cause of its removal ? Cf. the analogous case in anga 10. According to the Ganadhar asārdhaśata V. 29 (see p. 371) Vajrasv. borrowed the āyāsag, vijja from
sumahāpainna puyvāu rather than from the ninth ajjh. of the first śrutask. of anga 1. 69 navamajjhayanam vocchinnam, tam ca mahāpaärinnā itto kira āyāsagāmiņi
vijjā Voirasāmiņā uddhariyāsi tti säisayattanena vocchinnan nijjuttimātram citthai , Šilaṁkāyariyamaena puna eyam, althamam, vimukkhajjhayaņam sat taman,
uvahānasuyam navamam ti. 70* It would suit if Malayagiri were concerned, see the last asterism note.-L. 71 In the opening of ajjhayana 7 we read : adhuna saptamadhyayanas ya mahaparijna
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