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Charpentier, Uttaradhyayanasutra
dhccra’s and the anga’s can be of much value, as there are eleven
of them both (after the loss of the 12th anga). This coincidence
suggests that the whole story may have been invented at a later date.
However, this is of no great weight; for we can never hope
to identify the author or authors of certain parts of the Siddhanta,
except perhaps in some few cases. As a general account of the
facts, the statement that the main part of the canon originated
with Mahavlra and his immediate successors may probably be
trusted. But this was by no means the Siddhanta in its present
shape, which is certainly a rather late creation. And we shall
now proceed to give a short review of the oldest canon, of
the traditions concerning its history, and how it gradually developed
into the collection of sacred scriptures that forms the Siddhanta
of the modern Svetambaras.
The oldest books of the canon were the fourteen purva's or
former (scriptures)’, which have now been totally lost. But there has
been preserved in anga 4 and in the Nandisutra a table of con-
tents, according to which the separate sections of this old canon
bore the following names:
1. Uppaya (utpcida)
2. Aggeniya or agganlya1
3. Vlriycippavdya (vlryapravada)
4. Atthinatthippavdya (astindsti-
pravdda)
5. Ndnappavdiya (judnaprcwdda)
6. Saccappcwdya (satyapravcidd)
7. Aycippavdya (dtmcipravdda)
8. Kcimmappavdya (ltarmapra-
vdda)
9. Paccakkhdnappavdiya (pra-
tydikhyanapravdda)
10. Vijjdnuppavaya (jvidydnupra-
vdda)
11. Avumjha (avcmdhya)
12. Pdndum (prdnayuh)
13. Kiriyaviscda (kriyaviscdci)
14. Logavindusdra (lolcabindu-
sdra)
From these names not much can be concluded regarding the
contents of this literature, and some of them are moreover totally
obscure. However, the above-mentioned works also give a sort
of calculation concerning the extent of the various purvcts, which
is undoubtedly exaggerated almost ad absurdum. But they must
certainly have constituted a vast bulk of scriptures, as they had
1 Equivalent uncertain, perhaps agrayaniya.
Charpentier, Uttaradhyayanasutra
dhccra’s and the anga’s can be of much value, as there are eleven
of them both (after the loss of the 12th anga). This coincidence
suggests that the whole story may have been invented at a later date.
However, this is of no great weight; for we can never hope
to identify the author or authors of certain parts of the Siddhanta,
except perhaps in some few cases. As a general account of the
facts, the statement that the main part of the canon originated
with Mahavlra and his immediate successors may probably be
trusted. But this was by no means the Siddhanta in its present
shape, which is certainly a rather late creation. And we shall
now proceed to give a short review of the oldest canon, of
the traditions concerning its history, and how it gradually developed
into the collection of sacred scriptures that forms the Siddhanta
of the modern Svetambaras.
The oldest books of the canon were the fourteen purva's or
former (scriptures)’, which have now been totally lost. But there has
been preserved in anga 4 and in the Nandisutra a table of con-
tents, according to which the separate sections of this old canon
bore the following names:
1. Uppaya (utpcida)
2. Aggeniya or agganlya1
3. Vlriycippavdya (vlryapravada)
4. Atthinatthippavdya (astindsti-
pravdda)
5. Ndnappavdiya (judnaprcwdda)
6. Saccappcwdya (satyapravcidd)
7. Aycippavdya (dtmcipravdda)
8. Kcimmappavdya (ltarmapra-
vdda)
9. Paccakkhdnappavdiya (pra-
tydikhyanapravdda)
10. Vijjdnuppavaya (jvidydnupra-
vdda)
11. Avumjha (avcmdhya)
12. Pdndum (prdnayuh)
13. Kiriyaviscda (kriyaviscdci)
14. Logavindusdra (lolcabindu-
sdra)
From these names not much can be concluded regarding the
contents of this literature, and some of them are moreover totally
obscure. However, the above-mentioned works also give a sort
of calculation concerning the extent of the various purvcts, which
is undoubtedly exaggerated almost ad absurdum. But they must
certainly have constituted a vast bulk of scriptures, as they had
1 Equivalent uncertain, perhaps agrayaniya.