Jain Journal 1994 01

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

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JANUARY, 1994
Usabha, the first of their number. In the introduction it is of extreme interest to notice the statements of the author in reference to his own literary activity. It is as follows:
titthayare bhagavamte / anuttaraparakkame amiaṇāņi | tinne sugaigaigae | siddhipahapãesae vaṁde ||1||
vaṁdāmi mahābhāgaṁ | mahāmuṇiṁ mahāyasaṁ Mahāvīraṁ | amaranararāyamahiam | titthayaram imassa titthassa ||2|| ikkārasa vi gaṇahare | pavāyāe pavayaṇassa vaṁdāmi | savvaṁ gaṇaharavaṁsam | vāyagavaṁsaṁ pavayanaṁ ca ||3|| te vaṁdiūņa sirasă | atthapuhuttassa1007 tehim kahiassa | uanāṇassa bhagavao | niyyuttim1008 kittaissami ||4|| āvassagassa dasakā | liassa taha uttarajjha-m-āyāre1009/ suagaḍe niyyuttim | bucchami taha dasānam ca ||5|| kappassa ya niyyuttim | vavahārasse 'va paramaniuṇassa | sūriapannattie | buccham isibhäsiänam1010 ca ||6|| eesim niyyuttim | bucchāmi ahaṁ jiņovāeseṇaṁ / aharaṇaheukāraṇa- | payaṇivaham iņaṁ samāseṇaṁ ||7|| sāmāianiyyuttim | buccham uväesiam gurujaneṇam | āyariaparampareṇa | āgayaṁ āṇupuvvio ||8||
niyyutta to atthā / jaṁ baddhā teņa hoi niyyutti / taha vi ai cchāvei | vibhāsium suttaparivāḍi |19||
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There is no doubt that we have here the beginning of a work, [58] and that chapter 1 (which is itself called piṭhika, support, complement) did not yet precede these verses at the period of their origin.1011 From vv. 5 and 8 we learn that the author does not intend to write an introduction merely for this second chapter, but that his work is designed for all the avasyaka matter and especially the samăiam. The separate statements of his account show that he intended to carry his investigations into the first two angas too, the fifth upangam, three
1007 Arthaptthutvam.
1008 sutrarthayoh parasparam niryojanam niryuktih; kim aseṣasya śrutajñānasya? no, kim tarhi? śrutaviseṣaṇam avasyakādinām ity ata eva 'ha: avassa; - niryukti is perhaps an intentional variation of nirukti.
1009 samudayaśabdānām avayave vṛttidarśanad, yatha Bhimasena Sena iti, uttaradhya ity uttaradhyayanam avaśeyam.
1010 devemdrastavādinām.
1011 They are placed thus in a palmleaf MS, No. 23, in Peterson's Det. Report (1883) (only 1, 51 abhinibohia... see p. 56, precedes) at the beginning of a text entitled "niryuktayah." which contains at least several, if not all, of the above 10 niry.