Agam 15 Upang 04 Pragnapana Sutra Part 02

SR No.: 001064
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

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Satkhandagama adds to the abovementioned items several others, viz. tirthankara-hood, cakravarti-hood, etc.4 But Prajñāpanā dis. cusses tirth ankara-hood etc. in and through other dvāras. This suggests the early date of the Prajñāpanā account. And we find that Satkhandāgama account is more systematic than the Prajñāpana account. Again, it is noteworthy that in the present daara of Prajñāpanā there occurs the account of māndalika-hood (9th dvāra) and ratnas (jewels) (10th dvāra) which are conspicuous by their absence in the concerned Satkhandāgama account. Again, Şatkhandagama enumerates the items in the following order : ābhinibodhika (sensory cognition), śrutajñāna, manaḥ paryāyajñāna, kevalajñāna, samyagmithyātva (partial religious faith), samyaktva, samyamāsamyama (partial self-control), samyama (self-control), baladeva-hood, cakravarti-hood, tirthankara-hood, emancipation (Book VI, p. 494). This is not the order in which they are acquired. First the items related to jñāna are mentioned, then those related to darśana, afterwards those related to caritra and at last the other special items.
The summary of the Udvștta-dvāra (1417-43) is as follows: Class to which a
Class in which it is Items which it can living being belongs born after death
acquire in New birth Five-sensed sub-human Desa-samyaman and 1. Infernal beings beings
Avadhijñāna Human beings
Moksa (Earth-bodied, Water
bodied, Plantbodied, 2. Bhavanapati gods
Five-sensed sub-human beings The same as in 1
Human beings
(Earth-bodied, Water-bodied3. Earth-bodied,
Fire-bodied, Air-bodied,
| Twosensend, Three-sensed, Water-bodied,
Foursensed, Five-sensed Plant-bodied subhuman beings
The same as in 1 Human beings 4. Fire-bodied,
(From earth-bodied upto 1 Air-bodied
Four-sensed beings Five-sensed sub-human beings Dharma-śravana
4. Book VI pp. 484-502. 5. Refer to dvāras 5-10 of this Pada XX. 6. The text proper yields the following reading " silam vă vayam vă gunam
vā veramaņaṁ vä paccakkhānam vă posahovavasaí vã” (1420 [6]). Sūtra 1420 [8] speaks about anagara (monk). Hence these beings should be regarded as deśasamyami(i.e. having partial self-control). For definitions of sila etc. one may refer to the commentary (folio 399).