Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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ANGA-BAHIRAS
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almost identical Thān. 427 a). Its source is said (1, 10) to be the Ditthivaya whence possibly1 the expression of adhä-puvvam (=Puvvam ?) which occurs invariably often. The Angav. calls itself bhagavai mahā-purisa (i.e. Mahāvīra-Vaddhamāņa)-dinnā. 60 ajjhaya in prose and some 4100 $1. (59 f.. G.).
THE
1-7 Anguppatti, Jinasamthava, Sissopakkhāvana (ś1.), Angatthava, Manıtthava (comp. 9, 1), Ādhāranā (presuppositions, starting points), Vägaranopadesa (Disposition and method).
8. Bhumikamma (Establishment of fundaments, comp. 8, 2, 3). 30 padala (1326 $1.). 1.2. Samgrahani (2: ≤1.). 3-5. Bh. sattasamuddesa ($1. as in all that follows), Attabhāvaparikkha, Nemitta-m-upadhārană. 6-10. Divination through the client's mode of sitting, touching the seat, leaning, and from what is nearest to him. 11-16. Divination through his way of looking, laughing, questioning, saluting, addressing, and approaching. 17-27. The same through utterances of grief, indifference and tenderness; 28.29 through rest and activity. 30. Bh. gunavibhāsā.
9. Angamanı (acc. to p. 57, 10=angāvijā-manı). Praise of the Manisutta with a list of its 270 padala (1868 $1.). In a motley order the divinations are connected with the limbs of a man, their qualities being natural (e.g. right, left and middle, smooth and rough, curved and straight), subjective (e g. handsome and ugly, hideous and pleasing, insignificant), abstract (e.g. masculine, etc., present and future, bambheya, khatteya, vesseya, suddeya). Finally, limbs are confronted with figures (from 1-10 up to kodi and aparımıta).
10-58. Prose ($1. in 13, 22 f., 26, 46). The previous qualifications apply to the client's coming, disposition, way of putting questions, and to the locality where this happens to pass (10. 11). Fundamental traits (joni) in individual human nature beginning with dhamma, attha, and kāma, and their signs (lakkhana-vägarana, with 69 sl.) (12 13). Questions of acquisition,
1. This was the view of LEUMANN (VIIth OC, IA 10, 164) who was the first to draw the attention of scholars upon this work.