Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s5.1925

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two sections.⁴ It contains twentythree chapters in all.⁵ The first section has sixteen chapters and the second seven.⁶ The chapters of the former are known as Gāhāsolasaa⁷ where as those of the latter are called mahādh-yavanas.⁸ The first five chapters contain four, three, four, two and two uddeśas respectively, while the rest have one uddeśa each. In all there are thirty-six thousand padas in this text.⁹ It deals with the doctrines and refutation of kiriyāvāi, akiriyāvāi, and veṇayavāi, the four main heretical schools of those days represented by hundreds of sects. It also gives an account of the sufferings and hardships a monk should surmount and the way he should fortify himself against alien doctrines.¹⁰ The specific names of the twenty three chapters are : Samaya(2), Vetālia, Uvasaggapariṇṇā, Thīpariṇṇā, Narayavilhatti, Mahāviratthāi, Kusīlaparilhāsiya, Vīria(1), Dhamma(4), Samāhi(2), Magga, Samosaraṇa, Āhattāhia, Gamtha, Jamaiya, Gāthā, Puṇḍarīya(2), Kiriyāṭhīṇa, Āhārapariṇṇā, Apaccakkhāṇakiriā, Aṇagārasua, Addaijja and Nālamdaijja.¹¹ Sūyagaḍa was allowed to be studied by the monks of four years' standing.¹² It is predicted in Titthogālī that this text would become extinct 1500 years after the emancipation of Titthayara Mahāvīra at the time of the death of monk Mahāsamana.¹³ Rāyapasenaīya is the Upāṅga of Sūyagaḍa.¹⁴ Sūyagaḍa has its nijjutti¹⁵ and cuṇṇi,¹⁶ has Sanskrit commentary by Śīlāṅka, which is again commented upon by Harṣakula.