Book Title: Sacred Literature of Jains
Author(s): Ganeshchandra Lalwani, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan

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________________ 238 SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS enumeration of the angabahira texts, etc., which is found in the Nandi. See p. 10 ff. According to an introduction1058 consisting of 4 gathās it deals in prose especially with the 5 mahavvayas to which as the sixth the raibhoyana veramanam is joined. See p. 78. Then follows a metrical discussion of the same subject in 41 (13,7 and 23) äryä. Thereupon (esa khalu mahavvaya-uccāraṇā kayā, icchāmo suttakittaṇam1oss kāum) reverential salutations (nama) for the khamasamaņā by which partly imam vaiyam chavviham āvassayam bhagavaṁtam, partly imam vaiyam aṁgabahiraṁ kaliyaṁ, or ukkāliyam, bhagavamtam. and partly; imam vaiyam duvālasamgam gaṇipidḍagam According to Kasinath Kunte the work gives "an account of all what is to be done by the Sadhus in every fortnight." Perhaps the name is derived from the fact that it is to be recited every fortnight. [86] The work stated to be the third member in the group of Kalpasūtras and which has the specific title Kalpasūtram is, according to the statements in Kaś, the text which claims this title kar' efoxnv. It appears as the dasão section of the fourth chedasūtra. The first three members of the group of "Chedasutras" in Raj. L.M. cf. p. 227: the bṛhat, laghu and madhyama-vācana of the mahāniśitha, are stated by Kasinath to "treat of the penances to be performed by the Sadhus in a detailed, abridged and middling manner respectively." I have not found any other mention of this work. The sixth member of the same group paryuşaṇakalpa, contains, according to Kasinäth: "directions as to the manner of observing fasts and hearing the Kalpasūtra from the twelfth day of Bhadon (Bhidrapada) Badi (dark fortnight) 1060 to the 4th or 5th day of Bhadon Sudi (lunar, i.e. light, fortnight)." Is this the par'yuṣaṇākalpanijjutti in 66 ārya belonging to the third part of "Kalpasūtra" (Jacobi, pp. 8695)? This paryuş. was commented on (see p. 476) by Jinaprabha at the end of his samdehaviṣauṣadhi. See p. 82 on aughaniryukti and pp. 427, 429 on maraṇasamādhi. 1058 The first verse titthamkare atitthe atitthasiddhe ya titthasiddhe ya vamdāmi //1// glorifies strangely enough the atirtha, or atirthasiddha too... According to an avacuri on it this refers to the dharmavyavaccheda "Suvidhiprabhṛtinām tirthakytam saptasv amtareșu," see p. 211 fg. 242. 348, 1059 frutotkirtanam in the avacuri, perhaps sutaki. 1060 badi, bahuladina, as sudi, instead of sudi, suddhadina (or fukladina). See my treatise on the Kṛṣṇajanmastami p. 350n.

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