Nandisutt and Anuogaddaraim

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

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We have come across no old passage containing reference to Aryaraksita as the author of the Anuyogadvārasūtra. Whenever the old texts yield information about Aryarakṣita it is said only this much that he separated the four anuyogas from one another. It is needless to point out that the separation of anuyogas from one another and the composition of the Anuyogadvārasūtra are two quite different things. If Aryarakṣita has not composed the Anuyogadvärasūtra, it is highly probable that some of his pupils or grand-pupils have done so. This seems to be the case because the special knowledge of anuyoga (scheme or system or method of exposition) which Åryarakṣita possessed might have been naturally imparted by him to his pupils.
Date of the Anuyogadvārasūtra He was a contemporary of Arya Vajra who is believed to have left the mortal world in V.N. 584.55 He studied at least for ten years the subjects included in the Pūrvas at the worthy feet of Arya Vajra. When these two facts are put together they naturally lead to the conclusion that Aryarakṣita had already been initiated in the Order of Monks in the year 575 V.N. Now, if he were the author of the Anuyogadvārasūtra, then there is no difficulty for us in arriving at the conclusion that he composed it round about 584 V.N.56 He held the dignified position of a yugapradhana from 584 to 597 V.N. So, we can surmise that the composition of the Anuyogadvāra should have taken palce during those years. That is to say, if the Anuyogadvārasūtra were actually the work of Aryarakṣita, then it should have been composed at a date between V.S. 117 and 127.
May he be the author of the Anuyogadvåra or not, we should discuss the problem of the date of the Anuyogadvārasūtra as such on the basis of internal and external evidences.
The Bhagavatīsūtra recommends the Anuyogadvårasūtra57 for the information about four pramānas (instruments of knowledge), viz. pratyakşa (perception), etc.58 This suggests that the Anuyogadvāra
55. चउदस सोलस वासा चउदस वीसुत्तरा य दुण्णि सया ।
अट्ठावीसा य दुवे पंचेव सया य चोयाला ॥ पंच सया चुलसीया छच्चेव सया नवुत्तरा हुंति । पत्र-१३९ पंच सया चुलसीया तश्या सिद्धिं गयस्स वीरस्स । अम्बद्धिगाण दिट्टी दसपुरनयरे समुप्पण्णा ॥ पत्र-१४३
-Avaśyakaniryukti 56. Agama-Yuga kā Jaina Darśana, p. 17; Jaina Paramparāno Itihāsa, pp. 307-11;
Tapagaccha-Pattāvalī, p. 47 57. Bhagavati Su., 4.7.487 58. Anuyoga. Sü. 436