Jain Journal 1992 07

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

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JULY, 1992
in reference to the authorship of Mahavira: iha khalu samaneṇaṁ bhagavaya Mahavireṇam (then follows the regular varṇaka with about 40 attributes, among which are Jinenam buddhenam bohaenam .....) ime duvalasaṁge ganipidage163 pannatte, tam jaha: (then follow the names of the 12 angas)164 [279] tattha nam je se cautthe amge samaväe ti ähie,165 tassa, nam ayam atthe... In angas 1-3 we do not find at the outset any such designation as first, second, third angam.
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I extract the following from the remainder of the anga. In § 1 repetition of the statements of the third anga in reference to the asterisms addā, cittā, sāti being called egatara; further on the same statements are made about the remaining nakṣatras; in § 7 the 28 nakşatras are divided into four groups, viz.: kittiyāiya (°ādika) in the East (puvvadariyā), mahāiya in the South, anurāhāiya in the West, dhaniṭṭhaiya in the North. After186 the sentence kittiyaiyaiyā satta nakkhattā puvvadāriyā paṁ (pannatta) the words pāṭhāṁtareṇa abhahiyādiyā (A, abhiyāiya BC) are inserted ;167 whereby, as the schol. explains, abhijit., aśvini, pusya, sväti are indicated rather than the names in question. This insertion purposes to put the series of nakṣatras, first invented by the Jains and taught especially in upāngas 5, 7 (see Ind. Stud. 10,220, 304) in the place of the old krittikä series, which still maintained its validity at the time the fourth anga was first composed.168 The new view had not yet received the authoritative stamp of orthodoxy. [280] We must however here notice that (cf. p. 269) in the third anga § 7 we find statements completely identical with those in this insertion. In § 18 enumeration of the 18 kinds of writing usual for the bambhi livi (but not so correct as in up. 4 on which account I cite them there); $18
Seyyasa § 80, Siyyamsa § 84, Siyala § 83,90. Mamdiyaputta § 83, Supasa § 86,95,200, Ajjiya § 90, Imdabhuti § 92, Camdappaha § 93, Samti § 93, Sumai § 300, Sambhava § 400, Ajia § 450, Sagara § 450, Väsupujja § 700.
163 This word, which in § 57 is used especially for angas 1-3 belongs of course to the tipitaka of the Pali texts, but has no reference to the number three. The designation of "basket" inclines one to think of its having been committed to writing. On the first mention of the name tipitaka see Ind. Stud. 5,26; Vorles. Ind. Lit.-G2. 311, appendix, page 15.
164 All of the preceding from iha khalu on gives an impression of secondary origin. This is the first occasion that we meet with the varnaka of Mahāvira.
165 akhyāta, I assumed several years ago (see Bhag. 1,410.2,251) under the erroneous belief that this form belonged especially to the Suryaprajnapti (see Ind. Stud. 10,254) that ahia ahijjai were derived from the root khya weakend to khi, hi, I should now prefer to regard them as a species of retrogressive formation from the common ahamsu (root ah),
166 Thus in A; in BC before.
167 The same case is found § 72.
168 The schol. however regards the abhijit series as siddhamt amatam: he then adds: iha (in the text) tu matamtaram afritya kyttikadini.....bhanitani: camdraprajnaptau tu bahutarani matani darsitāni) (Ind. Stud. 10,285).