A History of Indian Literature v2.c20.s2.43

v2.c20.s2.43

¹ Published with various commentaries in the Āgama-Saṁgraha, Vol. 2, Bombay 1880; with Śīlāṅkācārya's commentary, Bombay 1917 for AUS. Translated into English by Jacobi in SBE, Vol. 45, and selected sections into German by *Schubring*, Worte Mahāvīras. Sūtrakṛtāṅga is a false Sanskritisation; for, as *Schubring* (*Worte Mahāvīras*, p. 12) has rightly observed, *sūtra*, "text," is *sutta* in Prākrit, and not *sūya*. He therefore explains *sūyagaḍaṁga* as the Aṅga of the Sūcākṛt or "philosophers," and is thinking of the meaning *dṛṣṭi* which is given by lexicographers both for *sūcā* and *ṣūci*. It is true that neither *sūcikṛt* nor *dṛṣṭikṛt* occurs anywhere else in the sense of "philosopher." The Nijjutti says that there are three names of the Aṅga: *sūtagadaṁ*, *suttakaḍaṁ* and *sūyagaḍaṁ*. The last is explained thus by Śīlāṅka: *sūcākṛtam iti svaparasamayārthasūcanaṁ sūcā sāsmin kṛteti*. This is right. The title means: "The Aṅga in which the distinction (between the true and the false doctrines) is made."