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liberation. It is the science of sciences. Dr. Hermann Jacobi had rightly observed, "The theory of Karma is the key-stone of the Jain system". Sacred Jain literature
The Head of the saints called Gautama Ganadhara had wonderful memory and faculty of retention. He remembered the whole sermon of the World Teacher and he had recorded it in four major divisons, called Anuyogas.
The first division Prathamanuyoga deals with the history and biography of the great personages of the world i. e. the 24th Jisthankaras, the 12 Chakravarties, the 9 Narayanas, the 9 Prati Narayanas and the 9 Balabhadras called 63 Shalakapurshas.
The Karnanuyoga explains about the cosmology and the universe etc.
The Charnanuyoga deals with the code of conduct for laymen and for ascetics.
The fourth is Dravayanuyoga, which deals with substances—the soul, the non-soul etc. It deals with philosophy and spiritualism
These four subdivisions are in fact the four Vedas of the Shramanic Sacred Jain literature. In reality Veda means the repository of supreme learning and erudition. Twelve Sub-divisons of Canonical Scriptures
The sacred Jain literature is also divided into twelve Angas. The Acharanga comprises of complete
