Jain Journal 1993 04

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

Page 36

APRIL, 1993
conjecture, mentioned above, must be referred and indeed limited to v. 1-4 alone in so far as these verses appear as a prelude of secondary origin. In the four verses which then follow are contained titles of the 36 sections :
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1. Pannavaṇā, 2. thaņaim, 3. bahuvattavvam, 4. thii, 5. visesä yal 6. vukkamti, 7. ussāso, 8. sannā,717 9. joņi ya, 10. carimāiṁ//6||, 11. bhāsā, 12. sarira, 13. pariņāma, 14. kasãe, 15. 'mdiya, 16. (- is wanting) ppaoge ya 17. lesā, 18. kāyaṭṭhil ya, 19 sammatte/(samyaktva), 20. aṁtakiriyā ya||7||, 21. ugahaṇāsamṭhāṇe,718 22. kiriya, 23. kamme i yavare (?), 24. kammassa bamdhae, 25. vedassa bamdhae, 26. kammassa vedae,719 27. veyaveyae//8/1,720 28. ähäre, 29. uvaoge, 30. pasaṇayā (darśanatā), 31. sanni721 (samjnin), 32. samjame ceva/33. ohi (avadhi), 34. paviyāraṇā722 (read rana ya), 35. veyaṇā (vedanā), 36. tatto samugghāe/|9||.
Then comes the text кar' e'çoxn'v which begins with the questions se kim tam ajivapannavaṇā? It consists furthermore of the questions of Go(yama) and the answers probably of Mahavira, though it is uncertain whether Mahavira be meant or not, since there is absolutely no addition of a legendary colouring. These questions and answers are couched in the style and manner of the dialogues in the Bhagavati, and though there is here a connecting thread (which we do not find in the Bhagavar, every padam forming a connected whole, nevertheless, there is, as a rule, [396] no genetic succession of the padas, despite the fact that Malayagiri makes every effort at the beginning of every padam to restore the connection with what has gone before. Many gāhās are found in the middle of the text, and many of the padas begin with a short statement of contents clothed in gāthā form-daragāhā (dvāragāthā). There are no legends whatsoever. The "contents" is as dreary as that (cf. above p 389) of the third uvamga which is closely connected with it, is dogmatic, speculative or even fantastic, and contains but little of general interest. There is much, however, that is important in the first book in the section on Man, who is divided into two classes: milikkha and äriya. First there is an enumeration of 53 Mleccha peoples, secondly an enumeration of 25(!) Aryan peoples with their
717 ahārāi dasasaṇṇāpayam, Vidhiprapā (V).
718 agahaṇāpayam V.
719 25 and 26 are transposed in BCV; in V we read kammaveyagapayam 25, veyagabamdhagapayam 26, veyagapayam 27.
720 The metre is faulty in v. 8.
721 maṇovinnāṇasannā payam 31 V.
722 paviyār aṇāpayam 34 V.
123 Malayagiri claims in the beginning of his discussion of the subject that there is a special connection between this upanga and anga 4.