Sacred Literature of Jains

Author(s): Ganeshchandra Lalwani, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
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XLIII, First mülasūtram, the uttarajjhayaņaṁ, in 36 ajjhayanas. The names of these ajjh., which are cited (sée page 280) in anga 4, § 36, are identical with those in the MSS. with but a few exceptions. By the chattisaṁ ca aputthavāyaraņāim, mentioned in the Kalpas. Jinac. $ 147, we must understand the Uttarajjh. according to the scholiast (Kalpalata). See Jacobi, p. 114. The correctness of this number (36) is corroborated by the concluding verse of the work itself. Haribhadra, on Avasay, 8, 54, explains the isibhäsiäim mentioned there by Uttarajjhayaņādini;987 and ibid 2, 5 both isibhāso and uttarajjho appear in conjunction in the text. The scholiast on Nandi explains (see p. 130) the name uttaro by the sarvesām àdhyayanānām pradhanatyam which belongs to this work. The author of the Āvaş yakanijj. states (2,5) that he is also author of a nijj. on the Uttarajjh.
With the exception of chap. 29 and the beginning of 2 and 16 which three chapters commence with the formula :- suyam me ausar teņaṁ bhagavaya evar akkhayaṁ (or t, bh. Mahāvireņaṁ Kasaveņaṁ e.a.), the text is composed in metre and principally ślokas, though there is an admixture of gåthas, triştubh, etc.888 The contents consist of direct ordinances in reference to a correct course of life, especially of the clergy, [44] and of recitals and parables illustrative of this life. Much of the contents makes upon us the impression of great antiquity and recalls similar Buddhistic texts and especially anga, 2.
On this mülas. we have a very detailed commentary, śisyahita, by Samtisori (Samtyācārya) in which frequent reference is paid to a nijjutti belonging to the text.989 See pp. 41, 43.
1. viņayasuyajjhayaņań, 48 vv. begins : samjogavippamukkassa anagārassa bhikkhuno / vinayam pāukkarissämi / vāņupuvviṁ suneha me 11. The word buddha appears to be here and frequently elsewhere in the work, an honorific title of the teacher's (vv. 7,8); cf. p. 263 (anga 2).
2. parisahajjh., 46 vv. with a prose beginning, which enumerates how the 22 parisahas : samaņeņam bhagavaya Mahavirena Kāsavenań
987 So also the anye in the Vidhiprapā; see pp. 429, 430, 988 The metre is often very much out of order, as in almost all metrical parts
of the Siddhanta. 939 In a palm-leaf MS., dating itself 1037 (A.D. 1251) the 3 appears to me to be
for an original 5; in which case the date would be 1507 (A,D. 1451). According to Jacobi p. 9, the commentary of Devendragaņi, which was composed Sanv. 1179 (A,D. 1123), is based upon that of Samtisūri, F.-14