The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s5.2

c7.s5.2

Nandi. The unknown author frequently looks beyond the bars of Jain dogmatics. Hence it is likely that the title was taken from the introductory verses of the Brahman drama (§46). The contents are: cognition (ṇāṇa), its means and sources (including a survey of the canonical texts 262a); 23 namaskāra-G.; G. 24-50 a list of the patriarchs from Suhamma up to Dūsagaṇi; 2 fragments: 13 kinds of good and bad pupils indicated by catchwords in one G., and 3 kinds of an audience in 3 G. At the end of the N. we find an uncommented appendix referring to aṇuṇṇā or the permission to speak, of which there are 6 kinds with altogether 20 names, and, finally, to knowledge by tradition (suya).