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
contain statements in reference to the correct (20 ] attainment of the suanäņam; the last one reads : suttattho khalu padhamo, bio nijjutti (!)-misio bhanio | taiou niravaseso, esa vihi hoi aņuoe // 5 // According to Leumann, the reference in Bhag. 25, 3' cites this verse as the conclusion of this entire account (java suttatthoaņuoe). The nijjutti is also mentioned.
Next follow some statements which are not noticed by the author of the avacūri, from which we may conclude that they were inserted at a later period, though they may in reality be of great age. They comprise a section in prose in reference to the anunna, anujñd, and a renewed repetition of the titles of the 12 angas and a reference to Usabhasena, as the original source of the aņunnā. See p. 15.
The commentary, which I have before me (avacūri), the work of an anonymous author, is very short. The Calcutta edition contains the commentary of Malayagiri, according to Leumann. We have already seen that a Nandivstti is frequently cited-see pp. 353, 354 (Vicărämrtasargraha), 360 (Abhayadeva), - the citations from it being partly in Prakrit (gātha), partly in Sanskrit. In the scholium on the Ganadharasärdhasata (see pp. 371, 458 ) Sarvarājagapi ascribes a nandiyrtti to the old Haribhadra, who is said to have died 75 years after Devarddhigaại. The author of the Vicărāmrtasaṁgraha appears to ascribe such a nandivytti to Umasvāmivācaka who was about 50 years older (sce pp. 371, 372). He says (fol. 34 of the Berlin MS) tatha cd "ha bhagavān Umāsvāmivācakaḥ : samyagdarśanajñānacaritrāņi moksamärga iti Nardivsttau, vācakaśabdaś ca pūrvagataśrutadhare rūdho, yathā 1 pūrvagata sūtram anyac ca vineyān vācayaṁtiti vācakäh, Nardivsttau : [21] vādi ya .. (see p. 353"). Such statements as these in reference to commentaries of so great an age are of great importance as regards the age of the Nandi.
XLII. The Anuyogadvārasūtrarh is an encyclopaedic review of everything worth knowing, 947 composed in anuogas, questions and answers. It is composed in prose though there is a frequent admixture of gāthås. There are no subdivisions though a systemic arrangement prevails throughout.
As in the Nandi, the ninam is especially treated of here. The text commences forth with with an enumeration of the same five forms of
947 An account of the method of defining and explaining the sastras, Kash.