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XLIV : VĪRASTAVA-PRAKĪRNAKA
jñāna.65 Bhagavan - The word Bhag signifies spiritual wealth, complete knowledge, the goddess of fortune, austerity, detachment and freedom. As you are endowed with all six (in the spiritual sense), you are called Bhagavān." Arhan, Arihanta, Arahanta - In the Jinasahasranama these three have been treated as one and it has been said that the Lord is Arhan because He is as worthy of worship as none else is, He is Arhana, Arihanta and Arahanta because he has completely shed the four destructive types of karma. ‘A’ denoting ‘ari or enemy' in the form of the Deluding (Mohanīya) karma, “Ra' denoting the 'raja or dust of Knowledge obscuring (Iñānāvaranīya) and Vision obscuring (Darsanāvaranīya) karma and “Raha denoting the “rahasya' or the Weal obstructing (Antarāya) karma. Thus, A-ra-ha-nta means the one who has achieved freedom from the (spiritual) foe of delusion, dust of two types of obscuring karma and the curse of obstructing karma.67
Tīrtharikara - Tīrtha means the means of fording the ocean of worldliness. One who provides the worldly creatures with such means in the form of four-way religious order comprising the monks, nuns, lay male and female followers of the faith is known as Tīrthankara. You, O' Lord ! establish such an order, therefore you are the Tīrtharikara.58 Nātha - Nátha means the provider from whom the others
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Ibid, Centum 2, p. 68, “Bhago jñānam paripūınaiśvarya tapaḥ Srīrvairāgyam moksasca vidyate yassa sa tathokta."
- Ibid, Centum 3, p. 70. Jinasahasranāma, Centum 3, p. 70. Ibid, Centum 4, p. 78.
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