Sacred Literature of Jains

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

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
ganipidagas" (ācāryasya sarvasvabhājanāni) KOT' e'Exon'». Anga 4 is nothing but a continuation of anga 3, and in the very beginning is styled to be “the fourth anga".
A second group is formed by angas 6-9 and 11, which in a common introductory formula refer on the one hand their contents directly to Suhamma or Jambu, and on the other are shown by other statements to have been united by one hand. See the remarks at the commencement of anga 6.
Angas 7-9 appear to be connected by an especially close bond.
The fifth anga and the existing redaction of anga 10 are not embraced in either of these groups. Anga 10 belonged originally to the second group. It exists in a form demonstrably later and is composed in another dialect (Nom. Şing. in o). The fifth anga takes a separate position, and begins in a very peculiar way. It possesses however one point of similarity with anga 6 ; kārikās, which state the contents of what is to follow, are found with each larger section. These sections do not have in the case of this anga the title ajjhayaņa, but are called saya, sata. The title of the anga itself has some connection with the titles of upāngas 5-7, and this fact makes plain that there is an inner connection between them.
That the reader may obtain a ready survey, I add the statements in reference to the extent of each of the angas which are found [250] in the MSS. of each at the end. As stated above, page 231, the texts are divided into hundreds and thousands of granthas, i. e., groups of 32 syllables, and these are marked at the proper place (either by thousands or by five hundreds) or the collective number of the granthas is stated at the end. As a matter of fact the statements of the MSS in reference to the number vary very frequently ; which is to be referred to the greater or smaller number of omissions which have been made therein. We shall refer further on, under anga 4, to this matter again. The following are the numbers in questions :
1,2554 gr., - 2,2300, - 3,3750,- 4,1667, - 5,15750, 6,5375,-7,812,-8,890, -9,192,-10,1300,-11,1316.
In the case of several angas at the close there are special statements in reference to the number of days necessary for the study or for the