Sūtrakṛtāṅga (सूत्रकृताङ्ग; also known in Prakrit as Sūyagaḍaṃga सूयगडंग) is the second agama of the 12 main aṅgās of the Jain Svetambara canon. According to the Svetambara tradition it was written by Gandhara Sudharmasvami in Ardhamagadhi Prakrit.The text is in two main parts: the first in verse and the second in prose. It is written using techniques including narration and questions and answers, and the chapters start with Sudharmasvami explaining the various doctrines to his chief disciple Jambuswami and answering his questions.
According to Sagarmal Jain, the text dates c. 4th-3rd century BCE,[1] but Johannes Bronkhorst argues that due to the Buddhist material contained within this text, it cannot be earlier than the 2nd century BCE.[2]
^Jain 1998, p. 4.
^Bronkhorst, Johannes. The Formative Period of Jainism (c. 500 BCE-200 CE), in "Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism, 2020".
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