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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the upapata kşetra they undertake feeding. That is, as soon as they reach the upapāta kşetra they start constructing their body, in other words, they receive material particles from all the four directions and transform them into sense-organs, etc. And when their sense-organs become mature they start paricārana, that is, they begin enjoying the objects of senses. And only after having enjoyed them, they start the process of assuming different forms (2033). But the order in the case of celestial beings differs from the one given above in that the celestial beings start enjoying the objects of senses only after having assumed different forms (2034, 2037). The order in the case of the one-sensed is the same as found in the case of infernal beings, the only difference being that there is no possibility of vikurvana (the act of assuming various bodily forms) in the case of the onesensed. But let us note that in the case of the air-bodied beings belonging to the class of the one-sensed even this vikurvanā is possible. The order available in the two-sensed, the three-sensed and the four-sensed beings is identical with the one found in the one-sensed (2035-36), whereas the order available in the sub-human and human beings is identical with the one found in infernal beings (2036).
During the course of the main discussion about sexual behaviour we meet with a secondary discussions about āhāra (feeding). There has been raised a question as to whether the feeding the living beings undertake is abhoganirvartita or anabhoganirvartita. We are told that the feeding that all the living beings, except the one-sensed, undertake is of both the types, viz. abhoganirvartita and anabhoganirvartita. But the one-sensed beings undertake the anābhoganirvartita feeding only (2038-39). The commentator explains the term 'ābhoganirvartita-ahāra' as follows: 'manahpranidhānapūrvam āhāram (grhnanti)' (folio 545). And he offers the following explanation of the statement that the feeding the one-sensed beings undertake is anabhoganirvartita only. “ekendriyāņām atistokāpatumanodravyalabdhisampannatvāt patutara ābhogo nopajayate iti teşām sarvadā anabohganirvartita eva ahāro na punah kadācid apy abhoganiroartitah” (Folio 545).
Here Ac. Malayagiri writes that even the one-sensed beings possess manas, howsoever unmanifest or undeveloped (apatu) it may be. This opinion of his is based on the belief that each and every living being possesses manolabdhi (potential thinking faculty). But we feel that the feeding undertaken by living beings with the desire and knowledge is to be regarded as
3. This exposition should really occur in Ahārapada. Hence we call it
prāsangika (secondary).