A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c8.9

c8.9

Broadly speaking we can divide the Āgamas into two groups: the *Aṅgas* and the *Paiṇṇagas*. The number of the former is fixed as 12; but such is not precisely the case with the latter, if the number 14000 is not taken to be correct. Anyhow the examination regarding the latter is more difficult than the former. We shall therefore proceed with the first group first. Therein we find that *Diṭṭhivāya* is lost, though not, all of a sudden. To be quite explicit, I may mention some of the details that throw light in this direction.