Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals

SR No.: 001656
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 210
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Religion, & Biology
File Size: 13 MB

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Biology in Jaina Treatise on Reals
(a) During the mono-Samayic or two-Samayic one-bend transmigratory motions, the living beings are supposed to be intakers. In the first case, because of the simultaneity of leaving earlier body and acquiring new embodiment, the intake is possible on both ends either through the body of earlier birth or through the body of new birth. (b) In the case of one-bend transmigratory motion, there are two Samayas involved in it- the first leading to the point of bend and the second leading to the destination of new embodiment from the bend location. The living being is intaker during both the Samayas. In the first Samaya, he intakes through the body of earlier birth, and in the second Samaya, he intakes through the new embodiment. (c) In the case of 2-bend 3-Samaya motion and 3-bend 4-Samaya motion, the situation is different. Here the living being under transmigration is intaker in the first and the last (3rd or 4th Samaya as the case may be) - two Samayas as above. However, it is non-intaker in the intervalised one or two Samayas: For, two-bend 3-Samaya motion - non-intaker for one Samaya. For 3-bend 4-Samaya motion - non-intakar for two Samayas. It is in this connection that the aphorism of their version mentions the limit of two Samayas of intakership. (d) Siddhsena points out that there could be 5-Samaya 4-bend motion. However, if it is assumed, there willl be 3 Samayas of non-intakership (5-2=3) barring the first and the last Samayas during which the soul is intaker. 7. In contrast, the D-version has a maximum of three-Samaya nonintakership during the 4-Samaya 3-bend transmigratory motion of the worldly beings. It postulates the following points in this regard: (a) During mono-Samaya linear transmigratory motion, the living beings have intake from the earlier abandoned body and new embodiment. There is no interval between the abandonment and embodiment. (b) During one-bend two-Samaya, 2-bend 3-Samaya and 3-bend 4Samaya transmigratory motion, it is only the last Samaya where the living being intakes through new embodiment. For the rest of the Samayas (1,2, or 3 as the case may be), the living being is non-intaker. There is no intake accepted in the first Samaya motion which is there in S-version. Thus, we have,
Non-intake
Digambara
S.No.
O Samaya
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Motion Linear, 1-Samaya I-bend 2-Samaya 2-bend 3 -Samaya 3-bend 4-Samaya 4-bend 5-Samaya
Svetambara O Samaya O Samaya 1 Samaya 2 Samaya 3 Samaya (if exists)
1 Samaya.... 2 Samaya 3 Samaya
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