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SAYA VII
āhāral virai? thāvara” jīvā pakkhī5 ya āue anagāre? chaumattha: asamvuda' annautthi10 dasa sattamammi sae.
1. AHĀRA. 1 (287) a. Beings in general (jīvā) and Al, when about to be reborn, stay without attraction of matter (a ņā hār a y a) for three samayas at the utmost.—b. Attraction of matter is at its lowest point (savv'appa) during the first samaya of the new rebirth (padhama-samayôvavanne) or during the last samaya of the former existence (carama-samaya-bhava-tthe [Abhay. ]).
a. This depends on whether their course to reach the place of their new rebirth is straight (rju-gati) scil. takes only one samaya, or deflected (vigrahag.) scil. takes two, three or four (or according to some even five, cf. also Abhay. on Thāņa 177b) samayas. Cf. I 7', XIV 12-3, XXXIV i 1; Lehre par. 95.
2 (288a) Memorandum on the shape of the world, jāva referring to V 94. In the whole of that world the kevalin discerns (jāņai pāsai) what is a soul and what is not (jīve vi ... ajīve vi ...) before he attains Siddhi (antam karei).
The ref. to V g* only introduces the statement on the kevalin. 3a (288b) If a layman (samanôvāsaga) who has practised sāmāiya stays in a house where a monk is (or monks are) living (samaņôvāsae acchamāna), he performs a profane action (samparāiyā kiriyā), not a religious action (an action in agreement with monachal duties, iriyāvahiyā k.), because his self is attached to [harmful instrumental, Abhay.) activity (āyā ahigaraņā bhavai ; the text has ahigaraṇībhavai).
In samanôvāsae acchamāna (cf. samanovassae acch. in VIII 5) samanovāsaya == śramanôpāśraya : sādhu-vasati, Abhay.; cf. Lehre p. 180, n. I and Doctrine p. 285, n. 1.
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