Nandisutt and Anuogaddaraim

Author(s): Devvachak, Aryarakshit, Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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but also in addition states that the name of that pupil of Dusagani was Devavācaka.
Owing to the similarity that obtains between the name of Devavācaka, the author of the Nandisūtra, and that of Devardhi who got the Āgamas put down into writing, these two names were regarded by Ac. Devendrasuri (13th cent. V.S.) and others, as referring to one and the same person. And Rev. Muní Sri Kalyāņavijayaji too upholds this view. Considering the Kalpasthavirāvali and the Nandisthaviravali to have been written from two different stand-points-that is maintaining that the Nandisthavirāvali contains the genealogy of the yugapradhānasthaviras and the Kalpasthavirāvali that of gurus-he tries to make his view cogent and stronger.42 But the evidence of the Cūrni is earlier than all the evidences set forth by him and the Cūrņi states that Devavācaka was a pupil of Dūsagaại. If Kalyāņavijayaji concedes that the Kalpasūtra contains the genealogy of gurus, then he should also admit Devardhi to be the pupil of Arya Sandilya. It is so because the genealogy in question expressly states to that effect. From this it becomes obvious that Devayācaka, a pupil of Dusagani, and Devardhi, a pupil of Arya Sāndilya, are two different persons. This evidence of the Cūrņi was not present before Kalyānavijayaji when he discussed the problem. So the conclusion he arrived at on the basis of the data then available now requires revision in the light of new evidences. To our mind Devaväcaka and Devardhi are two different persons. And it is on this account that the genealogies contained in the Nandi and the Kalpasūtra differ. It is quite impossible that one and the same person wrote and put in the beginning of his works the genealogies so different. If he were to do so, he would have certainly adduced reasons for constructing two genealogies such as these. But nothing of the sort is found in those two genealogies. The material of both has been handed down by tradition. Two different traditions could not be inherited by one and the same person. Hence it is not possible to find two different traditions in the works of one author. That the two works contain two different traditions points to the fact that they are the composition of two different persons who belonged to two different lineages of spiritual teachers and thus represented two different traditions.
Date of Devavācaka Sri Kalyānavijayaji has identified Devavācaka with Devardhi and has determined the time of Devardhi on the basis of the last line of the Mahāvīra-carita contained in the Kalpasūtra. The line is : "samanassa bhagavao mahāvīrassa jāva savvadukkhappahinassa navavāsasayāim vaikkamtaim dasamassa ayam asiime samvacchare käle
42. Viranirvāņa Samvat Aur Jaina Kālagananā, p. 119