Jain Journal 1994 01

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

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JANUARY, 1994
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XLIII, First mūlasūtram, the uttarajjhayaṇam, in 36 ajjhayanas. The names of these ajjh., which are cited (see page 280) in anga 4, $ 36, are identical with those in the MSS. with but a few exceptions. By the chattisaṁ ca apusthavāyaranaim, mentioned in the Kalpas. Jinac. 147, we must understand the Uttarajjh. according to the scholiast (Kalpalata). See Jacobi, p. 114. The correctness of this number (36) is corroborated by the concluding verse of the work itself. Haribhadra, on Avasay, 8, 54, explains the isibhäsiäiń mentioned there by Uttarajjhayaņādini;987 and ibid 2, 5 both isibhās and uttarajjho appear in conjunction in the text. The scholiast on Nandi explains (see p. 130) the name uttaro by the sarvesäm adhyayanānam pradhanatyam which belongs to this work. The author of the Avaş yakaniji. states (2,5) that he is also author of a nijj. on the Uttarajjh.
With the exception of chap. 29 and the beginning of 2 and 16 which three chapters commence with the formula :- suyaṁ me ausam tenaṁ bhagavayā evaṁ akkhayaṁ (or t. bh. Mahāvirenaṁ Kasaveņar e.a.), the text is composed in metre and principally slokas, though there is an admixture of gåthas, tristubh, etc.988 The contents consist of direct ordinances in reference to a correct course of life, especially of the clergy, [44] and of recitals and parables illustrative of this life. Much of the contents makes upon us the impression of great antiquity and recalls similar Buddhistic texts and especially anga. 2.
On this mülas. we have a very detailed commentary, śisyahită, by Śamtisüri (samtyācārya) in which frequent reference is paid to a nijjutti belonging to the text.989 See pp. 41, 43.
1, viņayasuyajjhayaņań, 48 vv. begins : samjogavippamukkassa anagārassa bhikkhuno / vinayam pāukkarissami / vāņupuvviṁ suneha me //. The word buddha appears to be here and frequently elsewhere in the work, an honorific title of the teacher's (vv. 7,8); cf. p. 263 (anga 2).
2. partsahajjh., 46 vv. with a prose beginning, which enumerates how the 22 parisahas : samaņeņaṁ bhagavaya Mahavireram Kasaveņam
987 So also the anye in the Vidhiprapā; see pp. 429, 430, 988 The metre is often very much out of order, as in almost all metrical parts
of the Siddhānta. 989 In a palm-leaf MS., dating itself 1037 (A.D. 1251) the 3 appears to me to be
for an original 5; in which case the date would be 1507 (A,D. 1451). According to Jacobi p. 9, the commentary of Devendragani, which was composed Sañv. 1179 (A,D. 1123), is based upon that of Sāṁtisūri,