Sacred Literature of Jains

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

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
general survey
128 sayas, including and especially those
Some uddesagas are indicated merely by catch-words. According to the usual general survey of extent and division of the work at the end of the MSS. there are in all 138 sayas, including all the sub-sayas, 1925 uddesagas, 184,000 padas; and these statements, especially those in reference to the number of words, are in exact agreement with the actual state of affairs, (see Bhag. 1,376), and agree so far as the number of the uddesagas is concerned, with the specific statements on this head in the Vidhiprapā (V), excepting in the case of an insignificant variation (there are only 1,923 udd. see p. 296n). In reference to the great difference especially as regards the extent 184,000 padas as opposed to the statements of anga 4 and of the Nandi the reader is referred to p. 288. Besides, in its general survey of the extent of the angas, the fourth anga has in $ 84, where there is no occasion for suspecting its truth, the same statement that the vivāhapannatti bhagavati had 84,000 padas. This statement was transferred from there to the later general survey (see page 289), although it does not belong there. I do not scruple, therefore, for this very reason to regard it as [296] correct. It would then have to be relegated to a period in which the fifth angam had not yet attained the half of its present extent. Cf. on this point the statements in anga 3,10 .in reference to the vivāhacūliya as ajjh. 5 of the last of the ten dasă texts there cited. See above, p. 274. The vivāhacū. is also mentioned in a previous passage in the Nandi among the anangapavittha texts (bhagavaticülikā, Schol.). On the other hand, it is noteworthy that anga 4 in $ 81, that is to say just before the mention of the 84,000 padas of the bhagavati, refers expressly to its 81 mahājummas (see above page 283); and consequently there is herein a direct reference to its latter books. But these very latter books give one at first glance the impression of containing secondary additions.
That anga 5 grew only gradually to its present extent of 15,750 graṁthāgra or 184,000 padas, is proved by a glance at the different proportions of the single books-(1-8, 12-14, 18-20 with 10. udd, each, 9,10 with 34 udd. each, 11 with 12 udd. ; 15 without udd. ;228 16 with 14, 17 with 17 udd., but 21 with 80,229 22 with 60,230 23 with 50,231 24 with 24, 26-30 with only 11 each, 25 with 12, but 31, 32 with 28 each, 33, 34282 with 124 each, 35-39 with [297] 132, 40 with 231, 41 with 196 udd.] Their contents too prove the gradual extension of anga 5.
228 Gosālasayam egasaram V. 229 With 8 vagga each with 10 udd. V. 230 With 6 vagga each with 10 udd. 231 With 5 vagga each with 10 udd. V. 232 33 and 39 with 12 avatarasayas (of which 8 with 11 each, 4 with 9 udd. each);