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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which has only one udd., whence its peculiar name; sattikka, sattikkaya, explained by saptaikaka.80 They existed in conjunction with one another originally, and formed a whole before they were placed here.81 Their names are :
8. hāṇasattikkayam, sthānasaptaikaka.
9. nisihiya, niśithikā (also niśi'); begins : se bh. vā bh. vā abhikamkhe nisihi yaṁ gamaņāe. Very brief.
10. uccāra-pāsavaņa (oprasravaņa). 11. saddasattikkaa, śabdao. 12. daṁsaņa, darśana ; rūvasattikkayaṁ V.
13. Without any specific title, accord. to V. parakiriyāsattikkaya ; rāgadveşot pattinimittaprati ṣedhah.
14. Without any specific title (saptamaḥ saptaikakaḥ), according to V. annonnakiriyāsattikkayaṁ ; anyonyakriyā nișidhyate.
Since it appears that here in the second (ninth) ajjh. the same subject is briefly treated of as in the fifth chūdā, see page 254, [257] the latter must be regarded as an amplification. The constant explanation of the word is deserving of special mention : nisiha, nisihiyā explained by nišitha (niś), niśīthikā. From this one might readily be led to assume that by this explanation conduct at night, or couch for the night was intended ; and the introductory words (see above) are capable of being so explained. According to the scholiast, however, the contents appear to be of a different nature : tasyāṁ svădhyāyabhūmau (as it is described in ajjh 8) yad vidheyaṁ yacca na vidheyaṁ. The use of these two words in other passages, especially in the Āvašy. Nijj., and the contents of the first chedaśutra itself which bears this name (see later on), point rather to nişedha than to niśitha. In the traditional conception as niśitha we have to deal with a direct misunderstanding, which is without prejudice to the remaining points of identity between nisiha and niśitha.
The third cūlā, bhavaņajjhayaņam
v. with but one udd, has
80 saptai kakāni ekasarāni, uddesak arahitāni. 81 The following two cudas too, have only one udd. each and in this respect are exactly
like the sat tikkaya. They have, however, not been drawn into unison with the sattikkaya but remain independent.