Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BHAGAWATI SOTRA
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SECOND SECTION Analysis of the contents :
The name of the fifth Anya is Viyahapannatti and this work is variously designated by the titles-Bhagavatı Viyahapannatti, Bhagavati, l'iāhapunnattii, Vivāhapannatti and Pannatti'. In each case was added to it the epithet Bhagavati' which indicated reverence for it (iyam ca Bhagavatītyapi pūjyatvenābhidbiyate) and later on it became the title of the whole work.
Śri Abhayadeva Sūris has given ten different meanings of the title “Viāhapannatti' in his commentary and equated it with the following Skt. words, viz., Vyākhyāprajfapti, V'yākhyā. prajapti, Vitahapra lapti, Vuahaprajapt, Vivadhapphapi and Vivādhaprajñāpti. Arrangement of the work :- .
The fifth Anga is arranged into Satakas, Udde sakas and Sūtras successively. The word "Sac (Šata or Śataka) used in the beginning of the second Sutakı suggests 'hundred', but there are found no proprieties in the present arrangement of this work. One is not able to explain its exact meaning because the extant forms have lost their significance. According to Śrī Abhayadeva Śūri this word "Sai' denotes Adhyayana (chapter) (Sate granthāntaraparibhāṣayā adhyayane). In the commentary on the Samavāyāng Sutra he, while interpreting the statement "Vivāhapannattie ekāsītiin mahäjummasayā pannattā'? makes it more clear that Adhyayana is called by the word "Sata'.
“Vyākhyāprajña pa tyāmekāśitirmahāyugmaśatāni prajñaptāni, iha ca "Sata sabdenādhyayanānyucyan te, tāın krtayugmādi lakṣmaṇarāśiviseşavicārarūpāņi atrāntarādhyayanasvabhävāni tadayagamāvaga myāniti".
i Samavāyanga S, 81. ? Antagadadasão (vagga VI para-2); Vivāga Suya
(Suyakkhandha, 1, ajjhayana 2). 3 Bhs, (Comm.) p. 1 a. 4 Vide Schubring. Die Lehre Der Jainas, 1953, p. 63. * Bhs, (Comm.), P. 17--2. • Bhs., (Comm.), p. 5. ? Samavāyānga, S. 81.
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