Sacred Literature of Jains

SR No.: 006969
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ganeshchandra Lalwani, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 250
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
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and MSS. of the painna group, which I possess, pay no attention to these two texts, [431] and limit the painnas to a smaller number, generally to ten..
The enumeration in the Ratnasagara (Cale. 1880) is as follows: Causarana (1)1, samthara (4)2, tamḍula (5)3, Camdāvijjiyā (6)4, gaṇavijjiya (8)5, devavijjiyā 6, Virathuva (10)7, gacchāyāra 8, jyotişkaraṁḍa 9, mahāpaccakkhāņa (9)10. Three names found in Bühler's list (2, 3,.7) do not occur here. To compensate for this omission there are 3 texts mentioned, of which one, No. 6, is quite unknown; the second, No. 8, is found in the V., and the third, No. 9, is referred to even in Avi. among the painnas.
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In the enumeration of Rajendra Lal Mitra and of Kashinath, see pp. 226, 227, we find the list of Bühler (arranged 1, 2, 3, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 4). No. 10 is omitted and replaced by maranasamahi, the acquaintance with which name we had already made in Avi, and V., and which here occupies the eighth position (between 8 and 7).
I possess a MS. of the dasapainnas which contains a recension varying from that given in Bühler's list. The first page having disappeared, a page which does not belong there has been inserted in its place. It is, therefore, doubtful whether the first part is causaranam (I) or not.786 The arrangement of the following parts is (2, 3, 4, 8, 6, 9,787.5). Instead of 7 we have the gachāyāra, [432] which we find in V. (see p. 429) and. Ratnasagara (p. 431); but there is nothing to compensate for the omission of 10.
The foregoing considerations prove conclusively that it is a matter involved in uncertainty what texts really belong to the painna group, a fact that must be held to render this secondary character a matter of great probability, All that can be drawn from the contents of the present 10 painnas makes for the same conclusion.
A considerable portion of the 10 painnas refers to the proper sort of euthanasy, the confession necessary for this end and the abjuration
786 Though the extent of the causarana with its 63 gathās, appears to be very large for one leaf, it is, nevertheless possible that the missing leaf may have contained this part, since this MS has upon each page 19 lines of 74 aksaras so that the 2800 aksaras of the front and reverse side would be entirely sufficient for these 63 gāthās.
787 No. 9 has here not 86 but 31 verses.