Jain Journal 1993 10

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

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This shews that their author attempted to give an encyclopædic, but systematic, review of everything that appeared necessary to him as a means of information in reference to the sources and forms of a correct knowledge and understanding of the sacred texts. In this way [2] he could present his readers with a hermeneutical introduction.859 These two works are admirably adapted to the use of any one who, having completed a collection or redaction of them, then seeks for light concerning the nature of sacred knowledge itself. The statement of the scholiast on the Nandi has no little internal probability 860 in asserting that Devavācaka, i.e. Devarddhigaņi himself, was their author. Furthermore, the list of teachers in the commencement of the Nandi and also in the commencement of mulas 2, as we shall soon see, breaks off801 with Dusagaņi, whom the scholiast states to be the teacher of Devavācaka, author of the Nandi. There is, however, no external support for this conclusion which is not borne out by any information to be derived from the contents. In fact, the contrary view seems to result from these sources of our knowledge; see p. 17 ff. The anuyogadv. contains all manner of statements, which would synchronize with the date of Devarddhigani, 980 Vira, i.e. fifth or sixth century A.D. But I possess no information which would lead me to connect the composition of the Anuyogadv, especially with him; and the difference in the terminology militates against the probability of both texts being the production of one and the same author; see pp. 9,11,21. That the Nandi is anterior to the Anuyogadv. is made probable by some passages of the latter work, which appear to have been extracted from the Nandi. But the fact that the Anuyogadv, is mentioned in the anangapaviṭṭha list in the Nandi (see p. 12), makes for the opposite conclusion.
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We find references to the Nandi in the remarks of the redactor scattered here and there in the angas and upāñgas; and especial attention is directed to the statement of the contents of the 12 angas found in the N. This statement is found in greater detail in part 2 of anga 4. Hence the fact that in these references of the redactor, the Nandi and not anga 4 is cited. We do not read jahā samavāye, but jahā Nandie; see 284, 352 (accord, to Leumann, also Bhag. 25,3 Rajapr. p. 243) :—which must be regarded as a proof that the Nandi was the authority on which these references were based. The treatment of the subject in anga 4
859 A glossary of the above-named sutras and a description of five Jñanas" is the somewhat peculiar description of the contents of the Nandisutra by Käsinath (p. 227).
850 See also Bhau Daji in the Journal Bombay Branch R. As S. 9, 151.
861 See Jacobi, Kalpas. p. 15, note 2.