A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c6.170

c6.170

Though the word *‘Cheyasutta’* thus occurs as early as the date of *Āvassayanijjutti*, there is no mention about the number of *Cheyasuttas* till we come to a very very late date. The earliest source which I remember at present, and which mentions the number and names of *Cheyasuttas* is Bhāvaprabha Sūri’s com. (p. 94) on his own work *Jainadharmavastotra* (v. 30). There this Sūri who attained this status in *Saṃvat* 1772 says: “अथ निशीथ १ महा-निशीथ २ व्यवहार ३ दशाश्रुतस्कन्ध ४ बृहत्कल्प ५ जीतकल्प ६ इति षट् छेदग्रन्थाः।”