Jain Journal 1994 01

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

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different schisms (ninhagas, nihnavas) which gradually gained a foothold in his teachings. The latter are chronologically fixed. Haribhadra quotes very detailed legends (kathanakas) in Prakrit prose (sometimes in metre) in this connection and also in connection with the ditthaṁta and udāharaṇa which are frequently mentioned in the text. These legends have doubtless been borrowed from one of his predecessors whose commentary was composed in Prakrit. The remarks of this predecessor, cited elsewhere either directly as those of the Bhaşyakāra (see on Nijj. 10, 47), or without further comment or mention of his name, he has incorporated into his own commentary. This too was here and there composed in Prakrit. Occasional reference is made to a mülatikā (see on Niij. 19,190), which in turn appears to have been the foundation of the Bhäşyakara,
(53) Even if we do not possess the text of the sadāvaśyakasūtram with its six ajjhayanas which was commented upon by Haribhadra, our loss is to a great degree compensated by a metrical Nijjutti. This is even called avas yakasūtram at the close in the MSS., and is probably .the only Āvasy. text which is extant.2000 At least Haribhadra regarded it as an integral portion of his text. He has incorporated it, with but a few omissions, into his commentary, and commented upon it verse for verse. He cites its author not merely as Niryuktikst, okāra, (c.g. on chap. 16, 17) as Saṁgrahaņikāra, as Mūlabhâsyakrt (e.g. 2,135) or even merely as Bhāşyakara (e.g. on 2,70.142, i.e. just as the author of the above-mentioned commentary in Prakrit prose) but also occasionally as graṁthakāra, okặt (see for example Nijj. 8,44,10,95) and even as sutrakārā krt (e.g. Niji. 1, 16, x). The verses of the Niji. are occasionally called1001 sūtras by him ! From a consideration of these facts we are led to the conclusion that the sole difference between the text commented on by Har, and the Nijj, lies in the different division the text being divided into 6, the Nijj. into 20 ajjhayaņas. See below. The fact that Har. does not cite at all some sections of the Nijjutti (for example the Therävali at the very start) may, however, be held to militate against the above conclusion. His text too contains besides the Nijj. several other parts, chiefly in prose, (54] which he calls sūtras or words of the sūtrakāra (see Nijj. 13, 53), e.g, especially a pratikramanasūtram given in extenso. He furthermore occasionally contrasts
TUUU UI., nowever, the avasyakaśrutaskandha in Kielhorn's Report, 1881, p. 92, and
the sadāvasyakasutram in Bühier's paper in the Journal of the Vienna Acad, 1881,
p. 574. 1001 e. g. tathā ce 'ho 'padesik am gātāsūtram aha Niryuktikārah : saṁsārao (2.18).