Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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THE JAINA SCRIPTURES.
The following is the Canon of Scriptures held by the Jaina of Western India, together with brief notes as to their contents. Various sects and sub-sects differ very much with regard to the Chedagrantha, Mulagrantha and Payannā, but all Svetambara and Sthanakavāsi practically agree with regard to the Anga and Upanga. They hold that originally there were Twelve Anga, but that one, the Dris'tivada Anga (1) containing an account of the fourteen Purva or Sciences, was destroyed.
A. The Eleven Anga (is).
1. The A'caranga Sutra (22). A book of rules for monks and recluses, together with the life of Mahavira.
2. The Suyagadanga Sutra (sia ), which contains a description of the faiths which prevailed at the time when Jainism arose, and which deals also with tranquility of mind and with the knowledge that destroys our attachment to the world.
3. The Thananga Sutra (gia a). A book concerned with the numbers in which things exist. Thus, under the heading "one" are grouped all things which exist singly as soul; similarly under "two" are mentioned all things of which there are pairs, as Love and Hatred; under "three Birth, Life and Death; under "four Anger, Pride, Deceit, Avarice.
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4. The Samavayanga Sutra ( ). This book contains various comparisons of opposites, as the
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