Sacred Literature of Jains

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

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
These treat of the aggamahisto, 1, Camarassa, 2, Balissa Vairoyaņaranno, 3, asuriṁdavajjiyāņaṁ dahi ņillāņam isdāņaṁ, 4, uttarillāņa asurimdavajjiyāņam bhavaņavāsi-iṁdāņa 5, dahiņillāņam vāṇamartarāņań, 6, uttarillāņaṁ väņam", 7, chaṁdassa, 8, sūrassa, 9, Sakkassa, 10, Isänassa [312).
The actual composition of the text of the second part is quite summary. To the first vagga five ajjhayaņas are ascribed, 282 their names being Kali, Rāti, Rayaņi, Vijju, Mehā, names of the five wives of Camara. The history of the first alone is really related, and that in quite brief fashion; that of the second is very much abbreviated and is identified with the first by the use of the customary marks of abbreviation (evam jahá Kali, tam ceva savvam jāva); that of the third is still shorter, and the fourth and fifth are settled with a word or two.
The text of the remaining vargas is despatched' in a like-summary fashion with but few words, although quite a number of ajjh, are allotted to several of them. Their contents is as follows : varga 2 five ajjh., vargas 3 and 4, 54 each, vargus 5 and 6 each 32, vargas 7 and 8 each 4, vargas 9 and 10 each 8.-In the Vidhiprapā however 10 ajjhayaņas each are allotted to varga 1 and 10 to varga 2.288
The extent of the second part in the MSS. is one-twenty-first of the first part. In one MS. the commentary on part 2 is despatched in four lines. Even if all due regard is paid to the second note on anga 7 given below on p. 315, how curious are the statements, p. 286, 289, 308, from anga 4 and Nandi.
The events take place in Rayagiha, Campā, Vārāṇasi, Bäravati, Viyasogā, Teyalipura, Ahicchatta, Hatthisisă, Puṁdaragiņi In the first account we find an [313] enumeration of non-Aryan peoples ; some are not found among those quoted, p. 302, from anga 5, others are found here which are wanting there. We read (see Steinthal, p. 28) : bahūhiṁ Cilāiyāhiṁ khujjahim vāvaņi(!)-vadabhi(!)-Babbari VažsiJoniya - Palhavi - Isini - Thārugini - Läsiya - Laüsiya - Damili : SinhaliĀravi-Pulimdi-Pakkaņi, Bahali-Mururdi-Sabari-Pärasthiṁ. There is, further-more, mention made here of 72 kalas (cf. p. 282 and Steinthal,
282 padhamassa vaggassa panca ajjhayaņā pantañ : Kali...Meha. 283 ...padhamavaggo, tammi dasa ajjhayanā...vie dasa ajjhayanā, (see above, p. 231).