Traverses on Less Trodden Path of Indian Philosophy and Religion

SR No.: 001577
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 302
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 20 MB

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(anākara), and each is subdivided into eight and four kinds respectively. These ideas are explained in two sutras. These two sutras are summarised in one verse in the Prasamarati. In T.S. knowledge is classified into direct and indirect, The former is of three kinds while the latter is of two types.8 The same classification is accepted by prasamaratikara. Instead of the word matijñana, it uses abhinibodha,9 which is also used in T.S. as synonym of matijñāna. 10 The soul is classified into worldly and liberated, and worldly souls are divided and subdivided into many kinds by T.S. and Bhasya, 11 which are described in three verses of Prasamarati in the same manner. 19 Bhava which constitutes the nature of the soul is of five types : - aupaśumika, kṣayika, misra, audayika and pāriņāmika, and they are subdivided into 2, 9, 18, 21, and 3 by T.S. and Bnas ya13 while Prasamarati in addition to these five accepts one more bhava which is known as sannipātika, 1
T.S. defines the substance or Sat as that which possesses the three characteristics of production, destruction and permanence.15 The same definition is beautifully explained in Prasamarati 16 T.S. accepts seven fundamental principles 17 (rattvas). Punya and papa are included in bandha itself, 18 while in Prasamarati pāpa and punya are accepted as independent tattvas totalling nine in all. 19 Six substances are accepted by both T.S. and Prasamarati.20 According to T.S. matter
6. Upayogolakṣaṇam; sa dvividhe aṣṭacaturbhedaḥ-T. S. II-8-9, respectively.
7. Samanyam khalu lakṣaṇamupayoga bhavati sarvajīvānām. Sākāroanākāraśca So aṣṭabhedaścaturdha, PRP.-194.
8. Matiśrutavad bimanaḥparyayakevaläni jñānam; ädyeparoksam, pratykṣamanyat-T. S. 1-9, 11. 12, respectively.
9. PRP.-224-225.
10. (a) Matismṛtisamjñā cintääbkinibodhaityanarthantaram, T. S. 1-13.
(b) Tatraparoksam dvividham śrutam abhinibodhakam ca vijñeyam, PRP.-225.
11. T.S. II-10-15.
12. PRP.-190-2.
13. 1.S. II-1-2.
14. PRP.-196-197.
15. Utpadavyayadhrauyayuktam sat, T.S. V-29.
16. Utpada vigamanityattvalakṣaṇam yattadasti sarvamapi. Sadasad va bhavatityanyathārpitanarpitaviseṣät, PRP.-204.
17. Jivājīvāsravabandha samvaranirjarāmokṣāstattvam, T.S. 1-4.
18. Punyapapayośca bandhe antarbhāvāt na bhedena upadhānam-Siddhasenagani, T.S. bhāṣya tika-1-4, p-4.
19. Jiväjivaḥpuṇyampāpāsra vasamvaraḥ sanirjaraṇaḥ. Bandho mokṣaścaite samyak cintyä navapadarthaḥ, PRP-189.
20. (a) T.S. I-4, V-1, 38.
(b) PRP.-189, 207, 210.