The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.14

c7.14

From *Thāṇ*. 199a; *Samav*. 128b; *Nandī* 235b we learn³ that the *Diṭṭhivāya* consisted of the sections *parikamma*, *suttāim*, *puvva-gaya*, *aṇuoga*⁴, and (with P. 1-4) *cūliyāo*. Here, evidently, the course of a dispute is reflected where *puvva-gaya* is the same as the well-known *pūrva-pakṣa*. The "introduction" is followed by the "sūtra" which may have been construed *ad hoc* and which then are "attacked" whereupon a close "examination" unveils the truth. The 12th Anga thus, under the title of a "discourse on (heterodox) views"⁵ (which is but one of other titles showing a didactic or polemic meaning, comp. *Thāṇ*. 491b) was an instruction to apology and quite naturally fitted closely in the doctrine laid down in Angas 1-11. In the course of time it was lost. JACOBI (SBE 22, XLV) explains this fact by saying that later generations thought the discourses of their early predecessors not to be important any longer. It is more likely that their preservation appeared to be undesirable since the study of such disputes was apt to arouse heretical thoughts and activities. Some quotations from the Puvvas indeed have been preserved in the reports on the early schisms (§ 17) exclusively.