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13 (20) 723 b, 777 a 14 (21) 66 a 15 (21) In this connection the Bhagavati passage occurring on pp. 418b
419a is also worth noting. For here the question is raised about the eligibility to attain mokşa in the case of persons who exercise superior, medium or inferior jñāna, darśana or cãritra. But the interesting point is that for each the range of possibilities here extends from so many heavenly (or human) births upto the attainment of mokşa. The passage must have been composed at a time when the doctrine of triple mokşamärga was already formulated but it was not sharply demarketed from the doctrines
of heavenly births etc. 16 (21) 54 b 17 (21) Thus Sūtrakřtānga 2-5 and Aupapātikasūtra 34 enumerate entities
whose existence is to be believed in and both catalogues contain all the items enumerated in the list of nine tattvas. Similarly, Sūtrakstānga 2.2 and Bhagavati 134b enumerate entities whose existence a community of the faithful believed in and both catalogues again contain all the items enumerated in the list of nine tattvas. The fact that all these catalogues contain all the items enumerated in the list of nine tattvas and yet add certain more to them proves that the list in question had not yet assumed a special
status, 18 (22) 221 b 19 (22) 179 a 20 (22) Sutras 1 and 144 21 (22) Sutras 2-5 and 24
2) 216 a, 223 b 23 (22) 342 a 24 (23) 191a, 433 a, 517 a, 552 a 25 (23) 657 a, 754 b (25) Even saying that the properties of a substance must be transi
tory - not momentary - would not obviate the difficulty, for then one might well ask as to why it should be so. And in any case, there remains the question as to what is meant by the statement that everything is eternal from the standpoint of substance. Not that even this puzzling question cannot be answered. But the fact that this and the allied questions are not discussed in any old Āgamic text suggests that they came to the forefront rather late. Be that as it may, the doctrine of seven nayas is con
spicuous by its absence in the old Āgamic texts. 27 (26) 592 b 28 (26) Satras 76 and 92
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