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which was probably of great moment in determining the fate of the last of the angus. See pp. 248,342.
The suttâi are cited as constituting the second part of the ditļhivaa. In all there are 88 suttāi, a number ascribed487 to the second part in anga 4, 88. In reality, however, there are but 22, beginning with ujjuya (ujjusua N; rijuka), but conceived as divided into four parts. The proper orthodox (sasamaya) doctrine and the heterodox views are represented as being equally authoritative. The former are divided into two different forms which are also represented by the äjiviya (Gośälakapravartitapāşanda Abh.), or terasiya. The 22 names are not explained by the scholia. They refer488 the name sūtra to the explanation of the meaning of the pūrvas, and consider this as well as the first part as an introduction to the third part of the ditthivāa which follows.
(353) The third part is composed of puvva gae, pūrvagatam, i. e.489 the 14 pūrvāni, which the Tirthankara - (Mahavira) himself is said to have imparted to his scholars, the gañadharas- see above p. 216,217
-who then composed the angas (ācārädikam). Besides this explana. tion which represents the pūrvas as older and earlier doctrines anticipating the angas, there is another which is possible. If our second con. jecture is correct, we should have to understand by the pūrvas that preliminary knowledge necessary to the comprehension of the doctrine. The titles of the 14 pūrvas490 quoted here in the text and enumerated before in § 14 are explained singly in the scholia, and the number of their padas, is stated. The enormous size of these figures greatly exceeds as a rule that which the scholiasts -- see above p. 288 - state to be the number of the padas of the angas, each one of which was said to contain twice the number of padas of the preceding
catvāra eva nayah, etaiś caturbhir, nayair adyāni sat parikar māni svasamayavakt av.
yataya ciṁt yařte, on this see Silanka on anga 1, 1, 8, above p. 347n. 487 The uijusuya and the parinayāparinayam are stated to be the first two in the series.
As regards other names reference is made to the Nandi and not to the independent
treatment of the subject further on in anga 4. See above p. 284. 488 Sarvasya pūrvagatasuträrthas ya sucanāt suträni, täni ca sarvadravyānāḥ sarvapar
yāyāna sarvanayānāṁ sarvabhangavikalpanāṁ prakāśakāni dvāvinsatih praj naptāni,
tatha rijusutram iti adi. 489 Cf. Schol. Hem. 245; purvanām gatam jñanam asmin purvagat am. The anonymous
author of the Vicārāmstasangraha which contains in 25 vicāras a grouping of siddhanta passages, a'āpakas, states that the purvagataśrut adharas were called vācakas, or, accord, to the Nandivytti cited by him, but which I have not seen, three other names vādiya khamāsamane divāyare vāyaga tti egasthā / puvvagayammi tu sutte ee sadda pauttanti. Can the Vicarasytasangraha be identical with
the Siddhāntālāpakoddhāra of Kulamamdana, Samv. i409-55 cited in KI. 255b ? 490 They agree in generai with those in Hem. 247,248. The explanation is likewise
identical ; see the schol. ibid. The number of padas is the same as that stated in
