A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.118

c8.118

These names are here given according to the Nandī (s. 57). In Pavayaṇasāruddhāra (dvāra 92), we come across almost these very names except that for Kammappavāya, we have Samayappavāya and for Lokabindusāra, Bindusāra. For contents according to the Śvetāmbara point of view, one may refer to the Cuṇṇi (pp. 57-58) on Nandī, Abhayadeva Sūri's com. (p. 131ᵃ and p. 131ᵇ) on Samavāya, Siddhasena Gaṇi's Ṭīkā (pp. 207-208) on Pavayaṇasāruddhāra etc.² From these sources we learn: The 1st Puvva deals with the origin of all the dravyas and paryāyas; the 2nd, with their measurements (parimāṇa); the 3rd, with the potentialities-powers of the animate and inanimate objects; the 4th, with the existence and non-existence of objects from the stand-points of *dravya*, *kṣetra*, *kāla* and *bhāva*; the 5th, with five kinds of knowledge; the 6th, with *saṃyama* and truth and their opposites; the 7th, with an exposition of *ātman* from various stand-points; the 8th, with eight kinds of *karman* and their sub-divisions; the 9th, with *pratyākhyāna*; the 10th, with *vidyās*-miraculous lores; the 11th, with merit and demerit and their fructifications; the 12th, with 10 types of *prāṇa* and various kinds of *āyuṣya*; the 13th, with activities pertaining to *saṃyama* etc.; and the 14th, with a subject not mentioned.