Jain Journal 1992 07

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

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JULY, 1992
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Abhayadeva in the scholia,188 the number of words in the case of angas 1-4, increases continually by half till the eleventh anga is reached ; and the Nandi and an anoymous writer thereupon asserts the same with the modification that, instead of angas 1-4, angas 1-5 are said to show this increase. This view is however in direct opposition to the actual facts of the case, for angas 7-11 are the least of all as regards their extent ; which is so very small that there can be no thought of 100,000189 countable padas, 190 "countable" meaning here probably "those that need a special count", ' numerous" or "innumerable". If we reckon on the average for each padam three akşaras191 and for each grantha (śloka i.e. 32 aksa.), twelve padas, the following is the result of a comparison of the number of these granthas, stated192 as in the MSS., with the above pada numbers [288].
gr. i.e.
1. anga 2,554 2 „ 2,300 3. , 3,750 4. „ 1,607 5. 15,750
30,648 padas instead of 18,000 p.193* 27,600
36,000 45,000
72,000 19,284
144,000 189,000
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84,000 or 2,88,000N
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188 Likewise also Nemicandra in the Pravacanasāroddhāra $ 92 v. 726 : padhamam
āyāramgam atthärasasahassapayaparimānamevam sesamgāna vi duguna dugunappama
nam/ 189 N at least has only "thousands." 190 Accord, to Leumann sarkhejja signifies merely an indefinite number that is still to
be counted, and not always a large number. 191 See Bhagav. 1,377. This is true in the case of the prose ; in verse we must reduce
the number somewhat. The preliminary question is of course-What does the author understand by pada ? (Malayagiri in the Nondi-fikä says p. 425 yaträrthopalabdhis tat padam. L.) In this approximation of three akşaras to a pada I have reckoned the single members of compounds as a single word, in so far as the
compounds can lay claim to be considered as such. 192 See above, p, 250, The grantha enumeration is of secondary origin in comparison
with the pada enumeration, 193* So also in nisthabhāsya pedh. 1 (taken from the Acära-niry). , It must, however,
be noted that the above number (18,000) is referred to the first Srutaskandha only. Malayagiri says (Nandi-tīkā p. 425 : atra para aha yath' Acāre dvau śrutaskandhau pancavinsatir adhyayanäni padāgrena cāstādaśa pada-sahasrani tarhi yad bhanit am naya bambhaceramāio atthārasa paya-sahassao veo iti tad virudhyate : atra hi nayabrahmacar yadhyayana-mātra evāstādaśa-padasahasra-pramāņa Acara ukto, 'smins tv adhyayane dvau frutaskandhau pancavinsarir adhyayanāni etat samagrasy Acāras ya parimānam uktam, astādaśa pada-sahasräni punah prathama-srutaskandhas ya navabrahmacaryādhyayanas ya, vicitrartho-nibaddhāni hi sutrani bhavanti, ata eva caisām sam yagarthāvogano gurupadeśato bhavati nanyatha, äha ca curn.krt : do suyakhandhā panavisam ajjhayanāni, eyam ayāragăsahiyassa (?) Ayārassa pamānam bhaniyam ; atthārasa paya-sahassă puna padhama-suyakhandhassa nava