Dṛṣṭivāda
The aṅga of the views: five divisions, and within the third the fourteen pūrvas. Lost, the tradition says, a thousand years after Mahāvīra — the whole of the twelfth step.
Diṭṭhivāya, the exposition of views. Its five divisions are recorded — parikarma, sūtra, pūrvagata, anuyoga, cūlikā — and the third, the pūrvagata, held the fourteen pūrvas, the oldest layer of the teaching, said to predate the aṅgas themselves.
At the council of Pāṭaliputra, some hundred and sixty years after Mahāvīra, the eleven aṅgas were compiled and this one could not be: Bhadrabāhu, the last who knew it whole, was away in Nepal. Sthūlabhadra learned ten pūrvas from him; the tradition says the rest dwindled teacher by teacher until, a thousand years after Mahāvīra, none was left. The Samavāyāṅga and the Nandī keep its table of contents. That is all that survives.
It has no pada count on the map. The bar it would have stood in is drawn as an outline, and the pūrvas inside it are drawn in the ink the tradition says they would have taken.
Measurements and counts
| Position | 12th aṅga |
|---|---|
| Divisions | 5 — parikarma, sūtra, pūrvagata, anuyoga, cūlikā |
| Held | the 14 pūrvas |
| Lost by | about 1,000 years after Mahāvīra — tradition |
| Survives | its table of contents, in the Samavāyāṅga and Nandī |
| Pada count | not printed |