The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.10

c7.s2.10

Thāṇ. 126a, 205a says that, apart from the Canda-, Sūra- and Jambuddīvapannatti¹ the Divasāgarapannatti, too, had an independent existence. But we only know it as being an interpolation in the Jīv. where it begins right in the middle of the discussion concerning the star-gods in III (176a). It closes (373a) with the words diva-samuddā samattā, and we find no sections² as is equally the case in Jīv. and Jambudd. (§ 48). For the relation between the latter and the Divas. see below. As indicated by the title, the contents—in question and reply—refer to the ring-continents and oceans. But the description opens with the Jambuddīva. A summary of the Divas. is the Divasāgarapannatti-saṃgahaṇī, 223 Gr., as we are informed by the Jainagranthāvali p. 64, the latter counting it among the Paiṇṇa.³