Sacred Literature of Jains

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

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
in reference to the authorship of Mahavira : iha khalu samaņeņam bhagavayā Mahāvireņam (then follows the regular varņaka with about 40 attributes, among which are Jimeņam buddheņań bohaeņaṁ ......) ime duvālasaṁge gaṇipidage163 pannatte, tam jahā : (then follow the names of the 12 angas)164 [279] tattha ņam je se caütthe aṁge samaväe ti āhie,165 tassa, ņam ayam atthe... In angas 1-3 we do not find at the outset any such designation as first, second, third angam.
I extract the following from the remainder of the anga. In § 1 repetition of the statements of the third anga in reference to the asterisms addā, cittā, sāti being called egatāra; further on the same statements are made about the remaining nakşatras ; in § 7 the 28 nakṣatras are divided into four groups, viz. : kittiyaiya (ādika) in the East (puvvadāriyā), mahāiya in the South, aņurāhāiya in the West, dhanitthāiyā in the North. After166 the sentence kittiyāiyāiyā satta nakkhattā puvvadāriyā paṁ.(pannattā) the words pāțhāṁtareņa abhahi yādiyā (A, abhiyaiya BC) are inserted ;167 whereby, as the schol. explains, abhijit., aśvini, puşya, - svāti are indicated rather than the names in question. This insertion purposes to put the series of nakşatras, first invented by the Jains and taught especially in upāngas 5, 7 (see Ind. Stud. 10,220, 304) in the place of the old krittikā series, which still maintained its validity at the time the fourth anga was first composed.168 The new view had not yet received the authoritative stamp of orthodoxy. [280] We must however here notice that (cf. p. 269) in the third anga $ 7 we find statements completely identical with those in this insertion. In $ 18 enumeration of the 18 kinds of writing usual for the bambhi livi (but not so correct as in up. 4 on which account I cite them there); $18
163 e.g. Kurtha $ 27.81, Kurthu $ 95 Pāsa $ 38.70.350. Panami (Nami B. C.) 8 39.
Aritthanemi $ 40, Nami $41, Vimala $44,56, Munisuvvaa $50, Malli $55,57. Usabha
Kosalia $ 63.83.89. Moriyaputta $ 65. Suvihi Pupphadanta $ 75.86. Bharaha $ 77, . Seyyasa $ 80, Siyyamsa $ 84, Siyala $ 83,90. Mamdiyaputta $ 83, Supäsa & 86.95.200
Ajjiya $ 90, Iṁdabhūti $ 92, Camdappaha $ 93, Saṁti $ 93, Sumai $ 300, Sambhava
$ 400, Ajia $ 450, Sagara $ 450, Vasupujja $ 700. 164 This word, which in $ 57 is used especially for angas 1-3 belongs of course to the
tipitaka of the Pali texts, but has no reference to the number three. The designation of basket" inclines one to think of its having been committed to writing. On the first mention of the name tipitaka see Ind. Stud. 5,26; Vorles. Ind. Lit.-G2.
311, appendix, page 15. 165 All of the preceding from iha khalu on gives an impression of secondary origin
This is the first occasion that we meet with the varnaka of Mahā vira. 166 akhyāta. I assumed several years ago (see Bhag. 1.410.2,251) under the erroneous
belief that this form belonged especially to the Suryaprajñapti (see Ind. Stud.
10,254) that ahia ahijjai were derived from the root khyā weakend to khi, hi, I + should now prefer to regard them as a species of retrogressive formation from the
common ahamsu (root ah), 167 Thus in A; in BC before. 169 The same case is found § 72.