Dear Heiner,

It may be that you got only text images rather than searchable text of the Śvetāmbara Jain canonical texts for one or two reasons. On my computer, I had to click "enable editing" to make the .docx Word file searchable. The PDF file of the same text was searchable upon opening. The other possibility is downloading the wrong file. As Royce said, the Jain eLibrary site is a bit complex, because they have so many texts. The searchable files are the serial numbers 003701-003789 (only odd numbers).

No doubt the Cūrṇis are more important than the Sanskrit commentaries, because they are older. But aside from the fact that we only have Cūrṇis on some of the canonical texts, the very fact that they are in Prakrit like the canonical texts presents the same accessibility problems. Already a thousand years ago Jain writers such as Abhayadeva-sūri felt the need to write Sanskrit commentaries on the Prakrit canonical texts to make them more accessible.

You are right that the available Cūrṇis are not included in Ānandasāgara/Sāgarānanda's editions. However, Muni Dīparatnasāgara's 2000 Āgama Suttāṇi (saṭīkaṃ) in 30 volumes includes Jinadāsa Mahattara's Cūrṇi on the Niśītha-cheda-sūtram (vols. 15-17), Jinadāsa Mahattara's Cūrṇi on the Daśāśrutaskandha-cheda-sūtram (in vol. 23), and Siddhasenagaṇi's Cūrṇi on the Jītakalpa-cheda-sūtram (also in vol. 23). Jinadāsa Mahattara's Cūrṇi on the Anuyogadvāra-sūtram was included in the critical edition of the Anuyogadvārasūtram prepared by Muni Jambūvijaya and published in 2 parts as volume 18 of the Jaina-Āgama-Series, 1999 and 2000. Jinadāsa Mahattara's Cūrṇi on the Nandī-sūtram was included in Muni Punyavijaya's 1966 edition of the Nandīsuttaṃ published as volume 9 of the Prakrit Text Society Series. Ānandasāgara/Sāgarānanda's edition of Jinadāsa Mahattara's Cūrṇi on the Āvaśyaka-sūtram was not published by the Āgamodaya Samiti, and I do not know of a newer edition than his 1928-1929 one in two volumes.

Best regards,

David Reigle

Colorado, U.S.A.