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composed systematic treatizes on various topics taken from the twelve anga-texts and with a view to benefitting the common folk; it is these systematic treatizes that are called anga-bāhya. That is to say, the systematic treatizes which have ganadharas for their authors are anga-pravista, the same which have the other masters for their authors are anga-bāhya.
Question : Which are the twelve anga-texts? And which of the ancient texts are prominently included in the multifarious class anga-bāhya ?
Answer : Ācāra, Sūtraksta, Sthāna, Samavāya, Vyākhyāprajñapti (Bhagavatī), Jñatdharmakathā, Upāsakadaśā, Antakyddaśā, Anuttaraupapātikadaśā, Praśnavyākaraṇa, Vipākasūtra and Drstivāda—these twelve are the anga-texts. Similarly Sāmāyika, Caturvimśatistava, Vandanaka, Pratikramana, Kāyotsarga and Pratyākhyānā—these six Āvaśyaka texts on the one hand and Daśavaīkālika, Uttarādhyayana, Dasāśrutaskandha, Kalpa, Vyavahāra, Niśītha and Rsibhāśīta, etc.—these treatizes on the other are included in the class anga-bāhya.
Question : This classification has to do with the systematic treatizes that collect knowledge in an organized fashion. But then are there only so many systematic treatizes ?
Answer : No. There were many systematic treatizes, there are many of them; many of them are being composed, many of them will be composed. However, here only those of them are enumerated which constitute the chief support of the Jaina canonical discipline. But even besides these many systematic treatizes have been composed, many of them are being composed. And they all ought to be included in the anga-bāhya. The only requirement is that they should have been composed by an intelligence that is pure and in a spirit of even-handedness.
Question : These days so many systematic treatizes are
1. That which is uttered by the rsis or saintly personages like pratyeka-buddhas etc. is rşibhāṣita. E.g. in the Uttarādhyayana the eighth adhyayana called Kāpilīya.
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