Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

SR No.: 001628
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jozef Deleu
Publisher: DE Tempel Brugge
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 372
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 19 MB

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end beings in possession of a lessā (salessa) are treated separately. One mnemonic gāhā summarizing 1-2.
2 = Pannav. 17,1:331b-342a.-All A1 have the same perception (samaveyana) because, being devoid of intellect (asanni-bhūya), they experience [suffering] unconsciously (anidae veyanam vedenti). On the absolutive (a)nidae see Lehre p. 116, n. 2 Doctrine p. 178, n. 2. Abhay. has anidae: anirdharaṇayā. Cf. also XIX 5o.
3 (46b) Lessā, ref. to Pannav. 17,2:343b-349a.
4 (47a) The four stages of samsara considered from the point of view of the periods during which no being entered or left (asunna-kāla) or a number of beings left (missa-kāla) or, in the case of HMG, all the beings had left (sunna-kāla) them. The relative duration of these periods.
5 (49a) Non-rebirth (anta-kiriya), ref. to Pannav. 20:396a407a.
6 (49a) There are fourteen kinds of people who are substantially apt to be reborn as gods (bhaviya-davva-deva) viz [1] asamjaya, [2-5] virāhiya- and avirāhiya-samjama and -samjamâsamjama, [6] asanni, [7] tāvasa, [8] kandappiya, [9] caragaparivvāyaga, [10] kibbisiya, [11] tericchiya, [12] Ajiviya, [13] abhiogiya and [14] salinga-damsaṇa-vāvannaga. The lowest and highest (jahanneņam, ukkosenam) divine existences in which they
are reborn.
6-7 the end of Pannav. 20 (404a, 406b), the text referred to in 5.--Cf. bhaviya-davva-deva in XII 91 and bhaviya-davva- in XVIII 9.--Not all of the fourteen terms are clear: besides undisciplined [1] and more or less disciplined [2-5] people the list seems to mention several kinds of ascetics [7, 9, 12, 14?]. For [9] caraga-parivvayaga see JAIN, Life p. 206. In Kbh. 1293 seqq. [8] kandappa, [10] kibbisiya, [13] abhioga and other names indicate mean people of indecorous and exuberant demeanour. Cf. also A. CH. SEN, Schools and Sects in Jaina Literature (Calcutta 1931), p. 39. asanni, according to Abhay., here means 'devoid of intellect' (mano-labdhirahita), hence 'annihilating bad karman unwillingly' (akāma-nirjarāvat); cf. I 1 and 22.
7 (51b) Duration and relative frequency of the rebirth of asanni beings on the four stages of samsara. **
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