A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c5.129

c5.129

(1) There are works known as *Prakīrṇakas*. They were composed by the 14,000 disciples¹ of Lord Mahāvīra-the disciples who were endowed with four types of *mati-jñāna*. These disciples, as some say, are not necessarily the *Pratyekabuddhas*;¹ but whatever it may be, we have no means to know exactly which works were composed by them. The works styled as *Prakīrṇakas* and enumerated under the two groups known as *kāliya-suya*² and *ukkāliya-suya*³ are perhaps some of the works composed by these *Pratyekabuddhas*. Whether it is so or not, their genesis will be taken up hereafter.