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
vd satijjai,896 We have here then a fixed canonical rule, which makes upon us the impression of being very old. At the conclusion of the udd. a penitence of one or, as the case may be, of four months is prescribed : tarn sevamane avayyati masiyaṁ pariharatthanam ugghātiyaṁ (or aņuggh", or cău”) nisahe.
The 20th udd, treats especially of this penitence and appeals thereby to the first udd, of the vavahara.
[455] At the end there are three dryås, in which Visābagaņi is stated to be the writer (!): tassa lihiyam nistham. These aryās are counted as
constituent parts of the text, since they are followed by the words iti " nisthajjhayane visamo uddesai sammatto.
There is a very detailed commentary (bhaşya) in Prakrit in aryas, akin to the prose commentary, which Jinaprabhamuni, author887 of the commentary on the paryusana-Kalpanir yukti, mentions as his source of information under the name nisithacūrni. The bhâsya offers but little assistance in regard to the explanation of the words of the text, but contains general remarks concerning the contents of each of the uddesakas. It starts with a very lengthy introduction 838 which at the end is called pedhaṁ, i.e. pigham, cf. pishika in Malayagiri. Each of the paragraphs of the text is called sūtram in every case. This commentary does not discuss the three concluding verses of the text. The writer of the Berlin MS. (Ahmedabad Saṁy. 1629) belonged to the stock of Abhayadeva.829
1. XXXVI. Second chedasūtram, the mahanistham. Instruction of Goyama in reference to transgressions (salla) and punishments (payacchitta, păchitta), in 8 ajjhayaņas, of which [456] ajjh. 1, 2 have a text composed partly in slokas or trisțubh, (Nom, in ) and partly in prose (Nom. in e); and in ajjh. 3 ff. many ślokas are inserted. The single copy which I have by me, and that a very incorrect one, reproduces the text so very imperfectly that even the writer overcome by the difficul
826 Who does this or that and who does not do it." See Leumann, Aup. Glossar,
p. 159s. V. sajj. (Pali sadiyati) "take", "receive", "accept", "permit". 827 A.D. 1307, see Jacobi, Kalpas p. 25; also author of the Vidhiprapa, above, p. 223. 828 Begins : navabambhaceramaio affharasapadasahassio veto (vedah, see p. 457) /
havati ya sapancaculo bahu bahutarao padaggenań // 1 // ayar apakappassa tu... 1/2 // dyaro aggamtiyapakappa taha culia nisihan th... // 3 // pakappammi culiyae nisthe ya...V. 1 is cited in the same form, by Silanka from Bhadr's acdranir yukri
according to Laumann... 829. Sanvar 1569 under Patasaha Mahamuda. ..