Jain Journal 1994 04

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

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Besides the Nijjutti I possess a fragment of a second metrical treatment of the avaśyaka, which is, however, confined to vamdana and paccakkāṇa. The former is divided into two sections, caityavamdana and guru. The text is only partially based upon the Nijjutti. There is an avacuri (°cūrṇi) to it from the commentary of a Somasumdara (from the Candragaccha). This avacuri can be traced back to a Jñānasāgara.
[77] XLV. The third mülasūtram, dasaveāliasuakkhamdha, daśavaikālika, or merely dasaālia,1042 dasakālika. It consists of ten ajjhayaņas, which are composed in slokas, with the exception of a few prose sections. There are furthermore two chapters called cūlā (and hence secondary1043) of similar contents. These are in gathās. After them follow four gathās, in which Sijjambhava, according to the old theravali (Nandi, Kalpas) the fourth patriarch after Mahavira, is stated to be the author;1044 but his son Ajja-Managa and his pupil Jasabhadda1045 are mentioned in connection with him. a claim of great antiquity for the author.
This is indeed
The contents refers to the vinaya, and is clothed in a very ancient dress. That this is the case is proved by the close of a chapter : ti bemi (also in the case of the two culas !) and by the introduction : suam me ausam in the prose sections (with the exception of that in cula 1), The dasaveāliam (see p. 11) is mentioned in the Nandi as being in the forefront of the ukkaliya group of the anaṁgapaviṭṭha texts; its position here, however. almost at the end, does not agree with the prominent place ascribed to it by N. It appears elsewhere as the last or smallest of the agama (if I understand the words correctly; the preceding leaf is wanting in the Berlin MS see p. 214) in Hemac. [78] in the parisiṣṭap 9, 99, and in the commentary on Nemicandra's pravacanasära, v. 1445, where Duḥprasaha, the last of the 2004 sūris which Nemic. accepts, is designated as daśavaikälikamatrasutradharo 'pi caturdaśapūrvadhara iva sakrapujyaḥ. The author of the Avasy, nijj. asserts (2,5) that he composed a nijjuti on it. A MS. of a nijjutti which recognizes the culiya is found in Peterson's Palm-leaf
1042 Thus in Av. nijj. 2, 5 and in the Vidhiprapā.
1043 This is evident from the title dasakaliam itself. At the time that the four gāthās were added at the end, these two culas had not yet been affixed, since
the text in v. 1 is called, as one might expect from its title, merely dasajjhayaṇaṁ. 1044 According to v. 37 of the kalasattari it was composed in the year 98 Vira. 1045 These three names recur in the same connection in the therav. of the Kalpas. Jasabhadda is also in the Nandi the fifth successor of Vira.