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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saṁsaiyāņam116 pavakaramaliņamaiguņavisohaņattham, asiyassa kiriyāvāisayassa, caürāsie akiriyāvāiņam, sattatthie andāņiyavaiņam vattisäe veņaiyaväiņam, tinhaṁ tesatthäņaṁ annaditthiyal17 sayāņam būham118 [267] kiccă sasamae thāvijjai, 119 nāņāditthaasta120 vayaņā nissāram sutthu dari sayaṁtā vivihavittharāņugamaparamasabbhāva-guņavisitthā mokkhapahodaragalli udārā annāņatam 'amdhakaraduggesu divabhūya sopāņā ceva siddhisugaigharuttamassa122 nikkhobhanippakampasuttatthā.123
I have before me the commentary of Harsakula124 from the Tapägaccha. It was composed "var se 1583," but not after Vira, but after Vikrama, i.e. A.D. 1527.125 The origin of the Tapăgaccha dates from Vira 1755.
III. The third angaṁ, thâņam sthānam : an enumeration arranged in categories designed for the instruction of the more advanced and in fact for the eighth year of their instruction. 126 The categories comprise successively subjects or conceptions conceived as one, two, and so on up to ten.. Hence the whole text consists of 10 ajjhayaņa, which are called ekasthāna, dvisthāna, etc.; ajjh. 2-4 each contain 4 udd., ajjh. 5 three udd. the rest of the ajjh. have no such sub-division, and exist as egasarāņi (V) of one udd. each.
From the miscellaneous contents of this compendium I extract the following: the nakşatras : adda, citta, säti [268] are designated as egatāre, and then the number of the stars of the other naksatras is enumerated. 127 In an enumeration of the divisions of time in 2, 4
116 jīvājio to visohanattham is omitted by N. 117 samdehajātasca sahajabuddhipariņāmasamśayitāśca ye. 118 pasamdiya N. 119 pratiksepam. 120 °vijjanti N. 121 nānā° etc. omitted in N. . 122 mokşapat hāvat araka. 123 gphottamasya, 124.sutra carthaś ca nir yukti-bhāsya-sangrahani-vitti-curņi-pamjikādirupa iti
sutrārthah. 125 We have a commentary to the fourth pâinna by a certain Harşakušala. 120 The statements in reference to genealogy at the end are in agreement with Dharma
sägara's Gurvāvali of the Tapāgaccha, of the members of which patriarchs 44,52-57 are mentioned; so that between 53 and 54 a Jagaccandramuni is referred to.
See KI. p. 257ab. 127 tatra bhavyasya mok sābhilasinah sthitagurupadesas ya prāņi no'stavar sapra
māņapravrajyā-paryāyasyai 'va sutrato 'pi sthānāṁgar deyam, Abhayadeva ; see above, p. 223,224.