Niryavaliyasuyakhandha Commentary

Author(s): Srichandra, Royce Wiles
Publisher: Royce Wiles

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1.2 SOYAGADA (Say.) Title: Süyagadanga; Sūtrakstānga (Skt). Content: "Sūy.) treats of the pious life of the monks, and is mainly devoted to the confutation of heretical opinions. This Anga ... consists of two books, the second of which is probably only an appendix, added later, to the old Anga which we have in the first book. This is composed in verses, slokas and also more artificial metres; the similes, too, show that the author was desirous of proving himself to be a poet. ... The explicit purpose of the book is to keep young monks away from the heretical doctrines of other teachers, to warn them of all dangers and temptations, to confirm them in their faith and thus lead them to the highest goal" (Winternitz 1933:2, 438–39). References: JRK 449-51; BORI Cat. 17:1, 25–33; JSBI 1, 127-68; Schubring 1935 $45.2.
Exegesis:
Bhadrabāhu, Niryukti (205 gāthās) (Tripathi 1975, 92; JRK 450; JSBI 3, 119).
1989 Niryukti-sangrahah / Bhadrabāhusvāmiviracitah , sampadakah samsodhakaśca Srijinendrasuri. Prathamavrttih. Läkhābāvala, Santipuri, Saurästra : Sri Harsapuspämsta Jaina granthamālā, Vīra sam. 2515. Vikrama sam. 2045. San 1989. 20, 600 p. ; [1] plate ; 19 cm. (Sri Harsapuspāmsta Jaina granthamālā ; 189). 7. Sri Sūtrakstānganiryuktih p. (455) 475.
ANU BL1310.4 B432 1989
1995 The Nijjuttis on the seniors of the Svetâmbara Siddhanta : Āyāranga, Dasaveyāliya, Uttarajjhāyā and Sūyagada : text and selective glossary/Willem B. Bollée. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner, 1995. ix, 197 p. ; 24 cm. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg : Band 169).
Süyagada Nijjutti: p. 119-36. Basis for text not explicitly stated, seems to be Sūy.1917; 1950-53; 1928; Niryukti-sangraha 1989, with variants added from Sūy.Cū.1941 and Sūy.Partial edition. 1975. Reviews: Herman Tieken, Asiatische Studien = Études asiatiques 1996 (681)-683.Nalini Balbir BEI 13-14 (1995-96), 547.—Paul Dundas, BSOAS 60 (1997) 152–53.-K. R. Norman, The Jain nijjuttis Acta Orientalia 58 (1997) 52–74.
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Also printed: Sūy.1917 [=1978b); 1923; 1928; 1950-53; 1977-88; 1978b. Sūy.Partial edition. 1975. Sūy.Cū. 1950.
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Jinadāsa Gani, Cuņņi about 10 000 granthas (JRK 450; JSBI 3, 312).
1941 * Sri-Sūtrakrtāngacūrni with Nijjutti and Jinadāsa's Cunni / edited by Mohanlal M. Badāmī. Ratlām: Srī Rşabhadevaji Keśarīmalaji Svetambara Samsthā, 1941. 466 p. ; 12 x 27 cm. [JSBI 3, 312; Bollée 1995, 192; Schubring 1955, 297, Jośī 1987, 46)
“Very corrupt" (Sūy.1978, 65). "[Here we find several clear attempts at normalizing, simplifying, or restoring the metre, so that to variants of Suy. 1950-53] the principle of the lectio difficilor must be applied with some rigour" (Alsdorf 1958, 251). The text published here is very corrupt, "compared with this, the one corrected by ... Punyavijaya is flawless lie. Suy.Partial edition. 1975]" (Jambüvijaya, Süy. 1978, 65 (1st group)). The DLJP series list says Sāgarānanda Süri was responsible for this edition.
Also printed: Sūy.Partial edition. 1975.
Śīlānka 2 Sütrakrtängatikā, composed Saka 784, ie. samvat 918 (861) other sources give Saka 798, samvat 932 [875], 12 850 granthas (JRK 450; Sūy.1978, 66 (1st group)). Alternatively referred to as Sīlācārya (Sūy.1978, 66 (1st group).
Printed. Sūy.1880; 1917; 1936-40; 1950-53. Translated into Hindi Sūy.1922-32.
1 Bollée (1977-88:1, 3) gives 1950 as the date of publication, this seems not to be correct. 2 In the tenth cent. Vikram Sīlānka did not have before him a single manuscript representing the tradition for
earlier Cūrnis: iha ca prāyah sūtrādarśesu nānāvidhāni sūtrāņi drsyante, na ca tikāsamvādi eko'py ädarśah samupalabdhaḥ, ata ekam ādarsam angīkstya asmābhir vivaranam kriyata iti, etad avagamya sūtravisamvādadarśanāc cittavyāmoho na vidheya iti (Sūtrakstāngatīkā, folio 336-1, cited in Nandi.1968, Editors' note, p. 97 (4th group) fn.2).