Jain Journal 1992 10

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

Page 12

OCTOBER, 1992
The fact that this introductio solennis is found in all six angas, alike, is proof enough of its late origin and of its being the work of a hand which brought all six into close conjunction. If this be so, it is possible to conceive that the explanation of the name ndyadhammakahāu which occurs in anga 6 (näyāni ya (308) dhammakahão ya) is not in harmony with its original signification. I prefer the foll. explanation : first separate the word into näyâdhamma and kahāu and understand by nāyādhamma the "dharma of the Jñata" i e. of Mahāvira270 * (see above, p. 261, on anga 2, 1, 1, 6), and understand the meaning to be "Recitals for the dharma of the Jñata."
But we must not suppress an objection. In the anga section in anga 4 and Nandi, both parts of anga 6 are especially recognized, and in fact by the same titles : nāyāi, and dhammakahāu. This misunderstanding, if such here exist, must have been anterior to the date of anga 4 and N. I cannot however regard this as a cogent objection, since the Nandi is the work, according to all probability, of Devarddhigani himself (980 Vīra), and the section of anga 4 is perhaps, in the last instance, the production of a still later period (cf. above, p. 284.) 271
The statements in reference to the extent of the second part of anga 6 contained in anga 4 and identical with those of the Nandi, are full of the most fabulous exaggerations, cf, p. 286, 289. Each of the dhammakahās is said to contain 500 akkhāiyås, each of these 500 uvakkhäiyās; each uv, 500 akkhăiya-uvakkhăiyās with a total of "31 koti". i.e. 35 millions of akkhāiäs. This latter sum excites the hostility of surprise since, if we reckon each 13091 of the ten vaggas of the second part as a dhammakahi, the result for all 10 is if we trust the above quoted statements, 125 kotis, namely 10 x 5009, i.e. 1250 millions ! According to the Schol, on the Nandi this riddle is solved by the assumption that of the 125 kotis, only 33 koti are "apunarukta", and the remaining 1214 koțis have occurred in the nine ajjh. 11-19 of part I, each of which in turn contains 540 akkh. having each 500 uvakkh. and these 500 akkh, uvakkh each.
270* The length of the à of nāyā (cf. Pāņ, 6, 3, 129, 130) is irregular according to both
explanations.-See however the first note on this anga. It certainly militates against the plausibility of the above conjecture, that the recitals of the first part are cited in the references of the redactor under the designation of nāya (jaha
aindanãe, jaha Mallinae)-L. 271 There is no reason whatever to suppose a misunderstanding in the above passages
only to please an etymology of the 19th century; even in this very anga 6 the term naya is applied to the first and twelfth ajjh, as will be seen from their titles given later on. Remember also the term nāyajjhayanāim spoken of above on anga 419.