A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.177

c8.177

The study of the Puvvas—A Caturdaśapūrvadhara can go through all the 14 Puvvas, both in word and meaning in a muhūrta¹, in case he has practised ‘mahāprāṇa² dhyāna’. This is what is said in Pariśiṣṭaparvan (IX, 62³). Padmamandira Gaṇi, however, in his com. (p. 183b)⁴ on Dharmaghoṣa Sūri’s Ṛṣimaṇḍala-prakaraṇa (v. 181) observes that in virtue of this dhyāna having been practised, a Caturdaśapūrvadhara can in an antarmuhūrta⁵ have the guṇana of all the Puvvas from the beginning to the end and in the reverse order to boot.