Jain Journal 1993 10

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

Page 35

OCTOBER, 1993
gasahassaim bhagavao (Usahasāmissa äititthagarassa, taha sarkhi fjäiń painnagasahassaiṁ majjhamaganam Jinavariņam, cauddasa painnagasahassăiṁ bhagavao] Vad dhamäņasāmissa, etc.
From this we may draw the conclusion that the 59 titles®41 according to the opinion of the author of the Nandı, represent merely a portion of the 84,000 painnas (our MS, has 184,000 in the text), which belonged to the first tirthakara Rşabhasvämin and to the 22 Jiņavaras following him ; but that at the time of Vardhamanasvamin their number was reduced to 14,000. Or accordi..g to another view, each of the 24 tirthakaras had just so many thousand painnas or pratyekabuddhases (16) as he possessed scholars endowed with the correct fourfold knowledge. Estimating these exaggerated figures at their true valuc, let us consider the 59 titles.843 Of the texts now enumerated as parts of the Siddhanta the titles of the four painnas 25, 27, 28, 34, of the sixth chedasūtra 40 and of two of the mūlasūtras, 44 and 46 are omitted. Of these the four painnas are to be regarded as modern productions and later than the N; the titles of the sixth chedasūtra 40 and of the fourth mülasūtra 46, are not certain ; and, finally, the title of the fourth mülasūtra 44, āvasyaka, has been already mentioned. See on p. 11. The remaining 27 titles of texts of the present Siddhānta not belonging to the angas (13 fg.) are one and all contained in the above list, though in a different order of arrangement and without any statement in reference to the names of their groups. Some, however, belong together as groups, the first four and the last five upāngas (Nos. 5-8 and 55-59) and the five chedasūtras (Nos. 31-35). Besides these the list contains
văl, prakirnakanath ca tadracitatvāt ; madhyamatirthakytam api sarkhyeyāni prakirnak asahasrāni vācyāni; Vardhamānasvāminas caturdaśasahasrāni. -anye punar āhuḥ: idam Rsabhadinah caturasitisahasrādikan framanamānam pradhānesutraracanãsām. adhyam (or merely canam ?) adhiktyo 'ktam, anyathă sămânyaśramanāḥ prabhu. tatara api tada Rsabhādikale asiran.-anye punar evam āhuh : Rsabhādinām jivatam idon caturasitisahasradikam śramanamānam, pravähatah punar ekaikasmin tirthe bhuyäthso'py asiran, tatra ye pradhanasutraracanāśaktisamanvitah suprasiddhatatvamdhāva (?) tatkālika api tirtham pravartamānās tatrā dhikytă (h): etad eva dar sa
yann aha : ahave 'ty-adi sugaman. 941 Or 60 including maranavisoht (Svi, V. between 23 and 24) and 65 with the addi.
tion of the five names in PS. 92 prat yekabuddhă api tāvanta eva syuh ; - atrai 'ke vyacaksate : ekaikas ya 'pi tirtha.
kytas tirthe parimānāni prakirnakani, tatkāriņām aparimănarvat ; kevalath pratyekabuddharacitany eva prakirnakäni, drastavyāni tatparimănena prat yekabuddhaparimănasya pratipadanat This explanation of eke is designed to effect a perfectly comprehensible limitation, but cannot be brought in agreement with the context, The title pratyekabuddha is of great interest. It occurs also in the angas, see pp. 265. 334. Similar statements to the above are found in the scholiast on the first painna. See p. 435. In the Vicaramytasarkgraha is quoted the following interesting citation from the pitha of a kalpabhagya : suttam ganahararaiyan taheva patte
yabuddharaiyam ca / suyakeralind raiyar abhiuna dasapuvviņa raiyah 11 Djs Or 60 and 65, see p. 15, note2.