Laghutattvasphota

SR No.: 001614
Original Sutra Author: Amrutchandracharya
Author: Padmanabh S Jaini, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 308
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Philosophy
File Size: 17 MB

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श्रीमदमृतचन्द्रविरचितः भिन्दस्तमोऽनादिदृढप्ररूढं महाद्भुतस्तम्भिततुङ्गचित्तः । तवैव वक्त्रादवधारितोऽयं सुरासुरैद्वर्यात्मकवस्तुवादः ॥१०॥
bhindams tamo 'nādidļļhaprarūdham
mahādbhutastambhitatungacittaih / tavaiva vak träd avadhārito 'yam
șurāsurair dvyātmakavastuvādaḥ ||10||
The gods and titans, whose minds have been compelled and elevated by the wondrous miracles (of the sumavasaraņa), understood only through your mouth (i.e. teachings) the doctrine of the dual (i.e. positive and negative) nature of reality, (the doctrine) which dispels the darkness that has grown tenaciously from beginningless time. (10) [185]
वाग्विषस्ते कृतचित्रमार्गाः प्रत्येकतीर्थप्रतिपत्तिकर्ती: । श्रुत्वाऽपि कश्चित् समुदायबोधशुद्धाशयरेव धृतस्तदर्थः ॥११॥ vāgviprușas te krtacitramārgāḥ
pratyekatîrthapratipattikartrih / srutvā'pi kaiścit samudāyabodha
suddhāśayair eva dhrtas tadarthaḥ ||11// The drops of your words have generated wondrous paths; they bring knowledge of the variegated holy path [pratyeka-tîrtha) (i. e. probably the paths of layman and ascetic). Although these (words) are heard (by many), their true meaning is taken in only by those whose hearts are purified through knowledge of the totality (of aspects, as propounded by the anekānta-vāda). (11) [186]
विपक्षसापेक्षतयैव शब्दाः स्पृशन्ति ते वस्तु विरुद्धधर्मा (म) । तदेकदेशेऽपि विशीर्णसाराः स्याद्वादमुद्राविकलाः स्खलन्ति ॥१२॥ vipakṣasāpekṣatayaiva sabdāḥ
sprśanti te vastu viruddhadharmā (a) / tadekadese’pi visirņasārāḥ
syādvādmuadrāvikalāḥ skhalanti ||12|| Your words (i.e. teachings) alone comprehend (sprśanti) reality, (which is) endowed with mutually opposed characteristics, because those words are (not absolute but) relative, and they anticipate the (presence of) opposite (aspects which are not expressly stated). But the words (of the absolutists) being deviod of the seal of the expression “maybe” (syāt], have, in (describing) only one aspect of reality, lost all their power and failed (to describe reality in its totality). (12) [187]