Jain Journal 1992 07

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

Page 18

JULY, 1992
samucchetiya, dokiriyā, terasiya, avaḍḍhiya (!); cesi nam sattanham pavayaṇaninhagāṇaṁ satta dhammāyariyā hotthā, tam: Jamāli, Tisagutte Asadhe, Asamitte, Gamge, Calue, Gotthämähile; eesi naṁ pa°ṇaṁ satta uppattinagara hottha, tam: Savatthi, Usabhapuram, Seyabiyā, Mihilā, Ullagātīram, puram Amtaramji Dasapura(m) ninhaga-uppattinagarāiṁ. According to Avasy. nijj. 8, 61, 88, the last of these schisms occurred in the year Vira 584; from this we may derive some basis for chronological determination.153 See Jacobi, Kalpas. p. 15.
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An exact examination of this important text is a great desideratum, since in it are contained a large number of significant [276] statements and data. It constitutes a perfect treasure-house for the correct understanding of innumerable groups of conceptions in distinguishing which from one another the pedantic formalism of the Jains was wont to run riot.
The table of contents in anga 4 and Nandi (N) reads: se kim tam thane? thine nam sasamaya ṭhāvijjamti parasamaya sasamayaparasamayā; jīvā ṭhāvijjaṁti ajīvā jīvājivă; logo alogo logálogo thāvijjaṁti ;154 thane nam davva-guna-khetta-kāla-pajjavapayatthā nam sela salila ya samudda-sūra-bhavaṇa-vimāṇa-agaraṇadio nidhayo purisajaya155 sarā156 ya gotta ya joisamṁvālā157 ekaviham vattavvayam duviham jāva dasaviham vattavvayaṁ jīvāṇa poggalāņa ya logaṭṭhāim ca nam parūvaṇayā āghavijjai 158
The commentary is by Abhayadeva, who both here at the end and elsewhere is frequently called navāngivṛttikāraḥ. Commentaries to angas 3-11 are ascribed to him; and we have one from his hand on upanga 1.
He calls himself a scholar of Jinesvarācārya159 and of Buddhisagara
153 The Jain records on the above seven schisms have been translated into German by Leumann, Ind. Stud. XVII, p. 91-135.-L.
154 In N, we read jīvā ajīvā jāvāj, at the beginning; then follows loe aloe loyaloe; and sasamae p. sasamayaparasamae forms the conclusion, (as also in the case of angas 4 et. seq.); the verb is thāvijjamti in each one of the nine cases-i.e. in the plural 155 Purisajaya tti purusaprakara unnatapranatadibhedaḥ
pathämtarena pussajoga
tti upalakṣaṇat vät pusyadinakṣatrāṇām cam Irena saha paścimägrimobhayapramadadiko yogah.
156 svaraś ca șad jādayo.
157 cālā B C.; jyotiṣaḥ tārārāpasaṁvā!anāni (cāl°. ?).
158 N has instead of thane nam davva the following: tamkā kādā selā siharino' pabbhārā kumdaim guhão agara daha naio aghavijjamti: thane nam egaiyae eguttariyae vuddhie dasaṭṭhāna vivaḍdhiyānam bhāvāṇam paruvaṇā āghavijjamii.
153 The founder of the Kharataragaccha; see the pattavali at the end of the Sabdaprabhedațika v. 2 (ms. or. fol. 813), and KI, 248a (11).