Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c11.2

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The fifth Jain *Aṅga*, popularly known as the *Bhagavatī Sūtra*, is rightly judged by Winternitz as a Jain canonical mosaic of various texts integrated into a single explanatory treatise on Jainism. It is accordingly entitled *Viyāhapannatti*. It is also known as *Bhagavatīviyāhapannatti*, *Bhagavatī*, *Vivāhapannatti*, and *Pannatti*. The old name of *Viyāhapannatti* is often corrupted to *Vivāhapannatti*. The title *Bhagavai*, which arose later, is originally only an adjective (Schubring, *Die Lehre Der Jainas*, 1935, p. 63). This text has not yet been translated into English. It has been edited with Abhayadeva’s commentary and published in three volumes by the Āgamodaya Samiti of Bombay (1918–1921). Weber and Schubring have made much use of this text (*Über ein Fragment der Bhagavatī*, in *Abhandlungen der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften*, 1865; *Worte Mahāvīras*). Some portions of this text have been translated into German by Schubring. A Gujratī translation (1–6) has appeared (Ahmedabad, 1927). Dr. A. Weber’s *Fraugment der Bhagavatī* (Berlin, 1866) is worthy of notice. This text contains questions and answers, Mahāvīra replying to the questions of his chief disciple, Indrabhūti, and partly in the form of dialogue-legend (*Itihāsa-samvāda*). This text gives a very good account of the life and work of Mahāvīra whose dissertations on *samsāra* and *karma* are worth noticing. There are two works of this name which is not the original title of either. The fourth *upāṅga*, *Paṇṇavaṇā* often has the epithet *Bhagavai*.