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The gatha No. 200 that occurs in the explanation of bandhana parināma occurs in Satkhaṇḍagama also. Of course, there it contains some different readings.4
Ajivagatiparināma (movement of non-living substance) is of two kinds, viz. spṛśadgati (movement involving touch) and aspṛśadgati (movement not involving touch). According to the Jaina view units of space are everwyhere. Hence Ac. Malayagiri is of the opinion that spṛśadgati does not mean the movement involving touch with the units of space, and the aspṛśadgati the movement not involving touch with the units of space. But there is another view which contradicts the view upheld by Ac. Malayagiri. Let us quote the words of Ac. Malayagiri, "anye tu vyacakṣate spṛśadgatipariņāmo nama yena prayatnaviseṣāt kṣetrapradeśān spṛśan gacchati, aspṛśadgatiparināmo yena kṣetrapradeśan aspṛśann eva cacchatitan na budhyamahe, nabhasaḥ sarvavyāpitaya tatpradeśasamsparśavyatirekena gater asambhavat | bahuśrutebhyo vā paribhāvanīyam" || 5
Ac. Malayagiri has given the following instance to explain these two kinds of movement. When a person throws a pot-sherd in a pond in horizontal direction, it moves touching water at some periods of time and not touching water at some other periods of time. The difference of opinion regarding the interpretation of the terms spṛśadgati and aspṛśadgati seems to suggest the fact that the conception of spṛśadgati-aspṛśadgati belonged to the period when the conception of ākāśa as an independent substance and consequently of its units was not yet formulated, and it has traditionally retained its former position even after the formulation of those conceptions which are not consistent with it. Upadhyaya Yasovijayaji has tried to resolve logically the inconsistency by writing a treatise' Aspṛśadgativada'. Again, the Jainas maintain that the soul that is being liberated reaches, in one moment only, the Abode-of-the-liberated which is invariably asamkhyāta units of space away from the place of its death and also that a thing takes one moment to travel from one unit of space to its next. And one naturally feels the contradictions or inconsistency in these two contentions. According to the rule that a thing takes one moment to travel from one unit of space to its next, the soul that is being liberated should take at least asamkhyāta moments to reach the Abode-of-the-liberated. To resolve this discrepancy the conception of aspṛśadgati is employed. This whole discussion draws our attention to the fact that the conceptions or doctrines known collectively as Jaina philosophy and religion took their own time for crystallisation. All the doctrines were not enunciated in their final form at once. Nor were they believed in their final form from the very start.
4. Satkhandagama, Book XIV, sû. 36 p. 33 5. Malayagiri's Commentary, folio 289 A
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| SR No. | 001064 |
| Book Title | Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | Shyamacharya |
| Author | Punyavijay, Dalsukh Malvania, Amrutlal Bhojak |
| Publisher | Mahavir Jain Vidyalay |
| Publication Year | 1971 |
| Total Pages | 934 |
| Language | Prakrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, Metaphysics, & agam_pragyapana |
| File Size | 16 MB |