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SACRÉD LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
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first had reference solely to the sun, the second solely to the moon. Our texts of up. 3 and 7, however, treat both uniformly and in a completely similar manner.
* XX.-XXIV. The eighth to the twelfth upāṁgas nirayāvaliyão, nirayāvalikās.
Under this collective name are comprised five small texts of legendary contents (vaggas) in one "śrutaskandha". The first of these either has the special title of "śrutaskandha", or is called kappiyao, kalpikas. The titles of the others are kappavaçlarsiyão, pupphiyão, pupphacūliyão or cūlão, Vanhidasão. Each of the first four has 10, the fifth 12 ajjhayaņas.784 In the introduction to the first, all these five texts are characterized-see 372, 373-as uvamgånań pańca vagga. We have seen above that this epithet recurs in the interior of no other one of the texts held to be upangas. [419] It must, therefore, be deemed a probable supposition, if we assert that this epithet at the time of the composition of these five texts was restricted to them alone in their totality since they belonged together from the very beginning. Their present position at the end of the 12 upangas is to be explained by their legendary contents, which shows them to be perfectly adapted to serve as a pendant to the legendary texts of angas 7-11,765 and tradition has-see pp. 373, 416brought them into connection with these anga texts and especially with 8-12. They share with these not merely the common form of legendary introduction, they are referred back to Sudharman and Jambd; they have the names ukkheva and nikheva, usual in the customary introductory and concluding formulae; they shew the division of each into ten ajjhayanas, and lastly they have the same form of the citation of a text, i.e. the first ajjh, only is quoted entire and the catch-words suffice for those that follow. We may well call them an appendix bound to angas 7-11 by a very close tie. Their interconnection is, furthermore, attested by external evidence : Their names are placed together in the enumeration of the anangapavittha texts in the Nandi, though the order of succession varies somewhat, the series there being 20 22,21,23,24, while between 20 and 22, as a separate text, the kappiyão
serted, which in the Vidhi prapa, [420] as in Santicandra on up.
78. Āvi. and Svi. : amtagadadasādipascanham athgānam niray'āvaliya-suakkhandho uvan
garh, tammi pamca vagga : kappiyao kappavadainsiyão pupphiyão pupphaculiyão
vanhidasão, caüsu dása ajjhayanā, pancame-bārasa. 765 As regards anga 10 I have mentioned on page 329 my conjecture that from the
inter relation of up. 8-12 and angas 7-11 we have additional testimony for the view that anga 10 too originally possessed a legendary character. See, however, p. 334 n.
