Canonical Literature Of Jainas

SR No.: 022774
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H R Kapadia
Publisher: Hindi Granth Karyalay
Publication Year: 1941
Total Pages: 286
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 26 MB

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THE EXTINCT ĀGAMAS OF THE JAINAS Nowhere I have come across the names of all these Vatthus. Only the name of the 3rd Vatthu of the 9th Puvva is mentioned as Sāmāyāri in Droņa Sūri's com. (p. 1b) on Ohanijjutti and that of a Vatthu of the 10th as Neuņiya in Visesão (v. 2390).
. The Pāhudas In Kammavivāga. (v. 7) we find twenty varieties of suyanāna referred to. Out of them Pāhudapāhuda, Pāhuda and Vatthu and each with the word "samāsa' added it deserve to be here noted. Devendra Sūri in his com. (p. 19) on Kammavivāgū (v.7) explains them as under:
"srcardäaf faitlanta: sam78 97 agafcaffiged rapuaसमासः १४ । वस्त्वन्तर्वर्ती अधिकारविशेषः प्राभृतम् १५ । तद्व्यादिसंयोगस्तु प्राभृतसमासः १६ । पूर्वान्तर्वर्ती अधिकारविशेषो वस्तु १७ । तद्द्यादिसंयोगस्तु वस्तुसमासः १८॥" .
Siddhasena Gani's com. (p. 94) on Tattvārtha (I, 20 ) also throws light on this topic. There it is said: "aeafa gåraient saq:, arga: प्राभूतमल्पतरं, प्रामृतात् प्राभृतप्राभृतमल्पतरं, ततोऽध्ययनं प्रन्थतोऽल्पतरं, तत उद्देशकोऽल्पतर इति ।"
From this it follows that Vatthu (Sk. Vastu) is a section of a Puvva, and Pāhuda (Sk. Prābhrta) is a sub-section of this section.' This Pāhuda has sections each known a Pāhudapāhuda. Vatthu is bigger than Pāhuda and Pāhuda is bigger than Pāhudapāhudai
The Digambaras believe that Kundakunda Ācārya has composed 84 Pāhudas out of which 8 are available at present; but, herein I am not dealing with any one of them; for, I am here concerned with the Svetāmbara literature on this point, and, moreover, these 8 extant Pāhudas do not form a part of the canonical literature. I may say that in this literature, nowhere a list of all the Paludas? is given; but we can surely collect the stray references which give us the names of the following Pāhudas:1 It may be noted that this Pāhuda has nothing to do with the 20 pāhudas
of Suriyapannatti and 21 pāhudas of Joïsakarandaga. 2 There seems to be no such work which mentions either the number or the
names of the Pāhudas of each Vatthu. From p. 89, fn. 7, we learn that the 3rd Vatthu of the 9th Puvva has at least 20 Pāhudas, and that the name of this 20th is Ayära. From p. 89, fn. 2, we learn that the 8th Puvva has at least 17 Pāhudas, and from p. 92, fn. 1, we see that the 5th Vatthu of the 2nd Puvva has 20 Pāhudas, and its 4th Pāhuda is named as Kammapayadi.