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Sub-human pentasensory Creatures (Tiryañca)
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Trisensory creatures (Trīndriya)
Quadrusensory creatures (Caturendriya) –
Heavenly gods (Devatā)
Hellish creatures (Nārakī)
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS: xiii
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Dhyana (Meditation) - Concentration of the mind on a particular subject for a certain length of time is called meditation. The meditation is of four types' - 1. Despondent meditation (Ārtadhyāna), 2. Angered meditation (Raudradhyāna), 3. Pious concentration (Dharmadhyāna) and 4. Pure soulconcentration (Śukladhyāna).
From the auspicious and inauspicious character point of view, the meditation is said to be of two types. The Artadhyāna and the Raudradhyāna are inauspicious or ignoble concentrations while the Dharmadhyāna and the Śukladhyāna are the auspicious or noble
concentrations.
Gärava (Vanity, arrogance)
or big headedness.
1. Arrogance due to wealth (Rddhi-gārava), 2. Arrogance due to power (Rasa-gārava) and 3. Arrogance due to availability of luxuries (Sātā-gārava).
A. Sthānanga, 4/1/60.
B. Samavāyānga, 4/20.
C. Śrī Jaina Siddhanta Bol Sangraha, Pt. 1, p. 193–194.
02 Lākha,
02 Lakha,
04 Lakha
04 Lakha
D. Jainendra Siddhanta Kosa, Pt. 2, p. 494.
A. Sthānānga, 3/4/505.
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14 Lakha
84 Lakha
Gärava means vanity, arrogance Garava is of three types2
B. Samaväyänga, 3/15.
C. Śrī Jaina Siddhanta Bol Sangraha, Pt. 1, p. 70.
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