Jain Journal 1994 01

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

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JANUARY, 1994
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to contain a discussion of the first of these 6 avasyakas (the sămäiyam), but that this claim is antagonistic to that limitation of the samdiam to the sāvajjajogaviratiṁ which frequently secures the Anny. By this limitation an ethical character is ascribed to the work, the contents of which is, furthermore, at variance with the claim mode by the Anuy.
The avas yakasūtram is a work which deals with all the six ayaś yakas in the order996 which is followed in the Nandi and Anuyogadvära, and discusses the samāiam actually, not merely nominally as the Anuyog, does. Unfortunately we possess, not the text of the avasy., but merely the commentary, called śisyahita, of an Haribhadra,097 which is as detailed as that on mülas.
1. Of this commentary there is but one MS., which, though written regularly enough, is very incorrect and fails in every way to afford tho reader any means of taking a survey of its contents by the computation of the verses, etc. It labours under the defect of such manuscript commentaries in citing998 the text with the pratīkas only and not in full, with the exception of foll.736 to 1536999 and some other special passages.
The text is divided according to the commentary into [52] the six ajjhayanas, with which we are already acquainted :-1, the sdmdiam, the săvajjojogayirai, which extends to fol. 196', 2. the caüvisait hava or praise of the 24 Jinas, extending to 204', 3. vaṁdanayam or honour paid to the teachers, reaching to 221, 4. padikkamaṇam, confession and renunciation (to 2986), 5, kaussaga, expiation to (315), and 6. paccakkhanar, acceptation of the twelve yratas (to 342).
By sämăiam much more than the săvajjajogavirati is meant. It is etymologically explained by samināṁ Jñanadarśanacäritrānām āyah (355). It treats not merely of the doctrine of Mahavira on this point, but also of the history of the doctrine itself, i.e. of the predecessors of Mabay., of himself, of his eleven ganaharas and of his opponents, the
996 See p. 434 on this arrangement. 991 At the close he is called a pupil of Jinadatta from the Vidyadharakula, or an
adherent of Sitarnbarácārya Jinabhata : samăptă ce yan fisyahita nāma "vaśyakatiká kytih Sitambarācārya Jinabhaganigadānusarino Vidyadharakulati. lakācārya Jinadattaśiksyasya dharmato joiņi (yakini !) -mahattaramnănäralpamănarā(?) cārya Haribhadrasya. The Ganadharasārdhasata is here referred to (cf. v. 52 fg) and the great Haribhadra (+ Vira 1055) : see p. 371, 372 456 fg. 'In Peterson's Detailed Report (1883) we find cited (pp. 6-9) under
No. 12 a vștti of a Sri-Tilakácārya, scholar of sivaprabha, composed Samvat 1296. 993 342 foll. Each page has 17 lines of 58-62 aks. each. 999 Nijj 3, 315–9, 3.