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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statements which are not so readily set aside as incorrect or impossible, differences which exist partly in these statements themselves, partly in their relation to the actual facts. First, the difference to the number of ajjhayaņas in anga 6, according to A and Abhayad, there are 19 and such is the actual state of the case—but according to BCN197* there are 29. Then as regards anga 8 the 10 ajjh. are wanting in N.198 The number of the vaggas (7), of the udd. (10) and of the samudd. (10) is in N everywhere 8 ; likewise as regards anga 9 N has the number 3 as in the case of the vaggas, and in that of the udd. and samudd. ; in the case of anga 10 N adds 45 ajjh, and in that of anga 11 likewise 2 suyakh. In reference then [290] to the actual facts, we must make the preliminary observation that the division into uddesagas in the case of angas 8-11, and that into samuddesagas in general in all the angas, is not denoted in the MS 5.199 The other differences refer chiefly to the fifth angam which has no division into ajjhayaņas ; in that anga they are called saya (śata), and their number is not 100 but 41 or, including the sub-sayas, 138 ; likewise the existing text has only 1925 (not 10,000) uddesagas. A special demarcation of vāgaraṇa sections is unknown.200 What can possibly be the meaning of 36,000 vāgaraṇas and only 84,000 padas ! (cf. Bhag. 1,376). The differences in reference to angas 8-11 are not less remarkable. As regards the vaggas (8), anga 8 agrees with N. but has, not 10 (cf. anga 3,10), but 93 ajjh ;-- anga 9 has likewise not 10 (cf. again anga 3,10), but 33 ajjh ; anga 10 has ten dāras cf. the ten ajjh. in anga 3,10 whereas we have here no information about dāras or ajjh., and N, on the other hand, speaks of 45 ajjh.—anga 11 has in agreement with N the 2 suyakh , which are not mentioned in the source of information before us. In the case of anga 12 there is no possibility of comparing the statements in question with the text, since there is no longer any such extant.--See below.201
191* According, to Leumann N Ed. has 19 and not 29-Here again, as with anga 1, only
the first Srutaskandha is intended by the assertion of there being 19 ajjhayanas and not 29. In the same way only Part I. of anga 11 has been known to the author of
anga 3, 10 as has been shown above on page. 270.-L. 198. According to Leumann this is not so in N Ed. 199. This statement requires some modification : see the closing words of angas 8-10 in · Weber's Cat. II., 502 (8). 507(9) 520(10: dasasu ceva divasesu uddisijjanti......);
anga 11 has in the place a reference to anga 1 (see ibid. 534) which, however, has
the same bearing.-L. 200 This demarcation, or the number 35,000 representing it, is also found in the table
of contents of anga 5 preceding the statements in reference to the extent. 201 I will note here merely the fact that in the section in reference to the twelfth anga,
Bhaddabāhu is mentioned by name, whom tradition proclaims to be the last teacher of this angam or of the fourteen purvas ; see above, p. 214. It is furthermore stated that therein was contained a section in reference to Bhaddabāhu and to his history.