The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.9

c7.9

§38. It is in harmony with the misunderstanding according to which the P. were the most ancient evidences² that some of them are said (Dasav. nijj. 15-17) to have been the sources for canonical texts, viz. P. 6 (Saccappavāya) for Dasav. 7 (Vakkasuddhi); 7 (Āyapp.) for Dasav. 3 (Dhammapannatti= Chajjivaṇiyā); 8 (Kammapp.) for Dasav. 5 (Piṇḍesaṇā). The remaining chapters of Dasav. are said to come form the Paccakkhāṇa-P. (9), vatthu 4, and from the same, vatthu 3, pāhuḍa 20, as the Āv.-nijj. will have it, the Cheyasutta Dasāo, Kappa, and both Vavahāra and the Ohaṇijjutti. Utt. 2 (Parisahā) is derived from P. 8, vatthu 20. Moreover, one of the Gāhās preceding the Paṇṇavaṇā refers to the P. (another one to the Diṭṭhivāya, s.b.). For the present writer it is beyond doubt that it was merely a relationship in contents that has led authors to construe those origins, provided that the Puvvas did actually lie before their eyes. This supposition is necessary since at all times imagination is keen on filling up evident gaps.