The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.52

c7.52

The Nijjuttis are looked upon as works composed by Bhadrabāhu, but they are centuries later than the leader of the Order who bore this name in the 3rd century B.C. (§ 23. 26) as is proved a.o. by their being a domain of the common gāhā which was far from being in use at that time.³ LEUMANN holds that the collection of Nijjuttis to be mentioned presently, came into existence about 80 A.D.⁴ "It follows that ‘Bhadra-bāhu’ is an author’s name of the kind we meet with in India in great number (e.g. in law-books and many other literary products"’.⁵ The author of Āv. 2, 5, a great scholar, sees his task in writing a Nijjutti on Āvass., Dasav., Utt., Āyār., Sūy., Dasāo, Kappa, Vav., Sūrap., and Isibhāsiyāim. Those belonging to the works in italics are at hand and have been printed with the exception of the Utt.-and Dasā-nijjuttis. The printed Bhāsas will be registered below. Some Cuṇṇis are—or were—independent of Bhāsas, they partly belong to canonical works, a.o.to Viy., Jiv., Pannav., partly to non-canonical ones as Pakkh. and Jiyakappa. But we must not forget that the word cūrṇi in Sanskrit commentaries may denote the famous Āvassayacuṇṇi.