Book Title: Outlines of Jainism
Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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________________ JAIXA SACRED LITERATURE: 1. ANGAS 137 perfect knowledge are the same. This dinya has 164,000 padas. 5. The Vyākhyu-prajnupti, or Bhagaruti, or Virüheprojñupti, gives an account of the 60,000 questions which the chief disciples put to the oinniscient Lord. the Tirthaukara, with the answers. It has 228,000 podus. 6. The Jñatridharmu - kathā - unga is also called Dluarma-kathū-unga. It gives an exposition in detail of the nature, etc., of the nine padārthus, jūru, etc.; as well as the answers to questions which the Gana-dharas put to the Lord. It has 556,000 pudlus. 7. The Upāsukūdhyayanu-anga gires details of the eleven stages of a householder's life, the vows of chastity, etc., and other rules of conduct for the householder, as well as aphorisms, and lectures on the same. It has 1,170,000 pudas. 8. The Intukrid-daśú-angu gives an account in detail of the ten ascetics who, in the period of each of the twenty-four Tirthankaras, undergo rery strict tortures of asceticisin and finally set themselves free from the bondage of karmu. It has 2,328,000 padus. 9. The Anuttaropapūdaku - dušā - aigu gives an account of the ten great ascetics who, in the period of each Tirthaikara, practised asceticism of a very high type and in virtue of that took birth in the five Anuttura-vimūnas, or heavens, such as Vijaya, etc. It has 9,217,000 padus. 10. The Praśnce-lyákaranu-anga gives instructions as to how to reply to questions relating to past and future time, gain and loss, bappiness and misery, life

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