Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

Page 650

GENUINENESS OF UTTARADHYAYANASŪTRA IX.34-36 : 181
Regarding 35cd he says: “Though constructible and intelligible, it is hardly genuine; why should it be stressed (eva!) that the monk must fight his átman with his ātman? What, after all, does this really mean?"
By changing the order of the quarters of the Anuştubh lines of verses 35 and 36 the learned professor sets up the following coherent stanza which he believes to be the only original one in place of the two verses :
अप्पाणमेव जुज्झाहि! सव्वं अप्पे जिए जियं ।
दुजयं चेव अप्पाणं जइसा सुहमेहए। Then, he says, if a scribe had this text before him, began copying it, and after 37-91779 inadvertently got into the next line, the result would be:
___अप्पाणमेव अप्पाणं जइत्ता सुहमेहए, which the next copyist would ingeniously correct to:
अप्पणामेवमप्पाणं जइत्ता सुहमेहए. He further supposes that a copyist compared this contaminated text with a correct manuscript and remembering the verse
इमेण चेव जुज्झाहि किं ते जुज्झेण बज्झओ occurring in the Acārängasūtra, he contaminated this with
अप्पाणमेव जुज्झाहि सव्वं अप्पे जिए जियं to अप्पाणमेव जुज्झाहि किं ते जुज्झेण बज्झओ, i.e., our 35ab. This left him, as the argument advances, with the two quarters सव्वं अप्पे जिए जियं and दुजयं चेव अप्पा] of the correct manuscript, which he, fairly stupidly, combined into an inconstructible line and placed at the end. The result was three lines, and to make up for the apparent deficiency of a fourth, a none too intelligent reader hit upon the insertion of the Arya line.
In short, according to Prof. ALSDORF verse 34 is the original answer taken by the poet from the great stock of contemporary gnomic poetry, while the second one is an amplifying apt quotation, possibly also going back to the original author of the samvāda but more likely a redactorial or even later addition.
This is indeed a highly intelligent conjecture having a touch of probability. It must be confessed, however, that it is not thoroughly convincing. In the first place, the sudden shift to the Ārya metre need