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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amāraṇastiya 380 ya sarnlehaņa ya,331 appāņaṁ jaha ya bhavaitta, bahūņi bhattāņi aņasaņde ya cheitta, *39 uvavannā kappavaravimāņuttamesu338 jaha anubhavaṁti suravaravimā navarapoṁdariesu334 sokkhaiṁ anovamāim, kameņa-bhottūņa uttamā iņ335 tao äukkhaeņaṁ cuyā samānā jaha jinamayarmi bohi laddhūna336 ya sarjamuttama tamarayaoghavippa [319] mukkā387 uvesti338 jaha akkhayam339 savvadukkhavimokkham ete. anne ya evam-aiṁ.
VIII. The eighth angam, astagadadasău, artak stadaśās, or artakrddaśās, see Hem. abh. v. 244 ; in eight vaggas, embraces in all 93 ajjhayaņas, viz. (10, 8, 13, 10, 10, 16, 13, 10) :340 it deals with legends concerning the pious, who have "put an end" to their worldly life.341
The number of the vaggas, eight, is very remarkable, as it is not in harmony with the concluding part of the title 342 Our surprise is however increased when we reflect that in anga 3 and anga 4 (see above 271, 286) ten ajjhayaņas were allotted to our text ; in anga 4, besides, seven vaggas and ten úddesaņakālas. The Nandi agrees with our text in apportioning to it eight vaggas (and eight udd.), but makes no mention of aj jhayanas whatever. Furthermore the titles of the ten ajjhayaņas cited in anga 3, 10, have scarcely anything in common with those of our text (see p. 271, 322) ; some appear in anga 9. There is therefore here a violent opposition between [320] the tradition and the actual constitution of the text. We have seen above, p.
330 paścāt kālabhāvinyah, akaraś ca mañgalaparihārār thaḥ (!) maranarupe ante
bhavā māraṇāítik yah. 331 Thus A, saħlehanājjhosņāhim B. C. ; at manaḥ sarirasya jivasya ca samlekhanā
tapasā rāgādijayavasikaranāni tāsām jjhosana tti jošana sevanā. 332 cheiyatta A, chedayitya. 333 kalpavareșu yāni vimānāny uttamāni tesu. 334 varattapuñdariesu A. 335 k. bh. utt. omitted in A. 336 bohi B, laddhena A. 337 raja A. rayogha BC ; tamo-raja-oghavipramuktāḥ ajnanakarmapravāha-viprao. 338 uvemti omitted in A; upayanti. 339 aksayam apunarävyttikam. 343 Likewise in the Vidhi prapā. 341 añto vināšah, sa ca karmaņas tatphalasya ca saṁsārasya kyto yais te'mtakrtas
te ca trthakarādayah. 342 The scholiast seeks to reconcile the contradiction as follows:-prathamavarge daśa
'dhyayanāni 'ti tatsamkhyayā astakytadaśa. This is of course a mere make-shift. If Abh. appeals to the Nandi on this point (see p. 291n), he can mean nothing else (since the Nandi contains nothing of the kind) than that the Nandi cites for our anga eight "vaggas" instead of ten "ajjh. "This so-called "explanation" substitutes, without a word of warning "ajjh. for vagga".