Jain Journal 1993 04

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

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Though the scholia fail to explain further the words pahuḍa, &c., they manifestly signify the same as chapter, paragraph, &c., and are actually so used521 in upångas 5, 7; and in anga 10 (see p. 333), the word pahuḍa is used in connection with the 14 puvvas. In the Anuyogadvārasutra (end of the pamäṇa section), the diṭṭhivaa is said to be computed according to pahuḍa, pahuḍiä, pähuḍapāhuḍia, and according to vatthu. This method of counting is said in the Anuyogadvārasutra to be similar to the division of the kalia sua, i. e., into uddesaga, ajjhayaṇa, suakkamdha, anga, which is there contrasted with the ditthivaa. Vatthu appears in up. 6 as the name of the sections of up. 5 and 7 in which it no longer occurs in the signification.
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If we now cast a glance at the entire field of information which we possess in regard to [362] the twelfth anga, it is manifest that, though this anga had a genuine existence, nevertheless the information at our command produces an impression of less weight than that concerning the previous eleven angas. In the case of the latter we possess the texts themselves as a means of verification, but in the case of the twelfth anga there is no such help upon which we can rely.
These statements, and especially those in reference to the 14 pūrvas, are, however, not purely fictitious. This is clear from the citations adduced above in our consideration of each, and especially of 2-4, 7-10, and from traditions in reference either to the extracts from them or to their relations to the origin of some of the seven schisms. Another proof of the validity of these statements lies in the fact that the number of the vatthus, māuyāpadāņi and suttāni, contained in the diṭṭhiv, which is mentioned in anga 4 §§ 13-16, 18.20.25.26 and 88 is in direct agreement with the later statement of contents. Finally the name pahuḍa in anga 10 appears in direct connection with the 14 puvvas. At the period of the Avaśyakasutra, especially, and at that of the Anuyogadvarasutra these texts must still have existed, and perhaps even at the time of the older commentaries (cf. e. g., p. 347n.), if the statements of the latter are not mere reproductions of old traditions. See p. 225.
The statement of the contents of anga 12 is found in anga 4, or Nandi (N), and is as follows:
Se kim tam diṭṭhiväe? diṭṭhiväe nam savvabhavaparuvaṇaya522 āghavijj
521 The name pahuḍa is found in the Siddhapancasika of Devendrasuri in 50 gāthās. The author, in v. 1, says that he has taken his material sirisiddhapahuḍão. See above v. 354.
522 ABC, vaṇā N.