Ashtakprakaranam

SR No.: 001665
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 190
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Religion, worship, & Principle
File Size: 8 MB

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ledge etc. is futile. The real nature of objects, as preached by seers etc. ought to be contemplated, vigilantly and impartially by righteous and religious ones.
The fourteenth, 'Ekāntanityapakşakhandanāştaka' refutes the absolute view of exclusively eternal soul advocated by some systems. According to Ācārya, soul being inert, violence etc. are not applicable therein. It implies that non-violence, truth etc. also do not occur in the soul, as postulated by them. Again, this negation of violence etc., in turn, led to the negation of all Yamas and Niyamas. Ultimately, association of the body with absolutely eternal soul is also proved illogical. In the same way, that of soul's all-pervasiveness or omnipresence, makes its world-cycle untenable.
In fourteenth and fifteenth Nityapakşakhandanāstakam and Anityapakşakhandanāștakam, respectively, Ācārya Haribhadra refutes the postulates of those considering soul as absolutely eternal, permanent, inert etc. as well as of those contemplating soul as absolutely impermanent etc.
In the sixteenth Nityānityapakşamandanāstakam, Haribhadra propounds that in the soul, of permanent-cum-changeable nature and identical-cum-different from body, violence etc. do occur. Though main cause of violence is the fruition of one's karman yet killer is the efficient cause. The act of violence is carried out due to agitation in mind. Vicious feeling is subsided by righteous preaching etc. and by auspicious disposition of mind. Ācārya further maintains that eternal-cum-changeable etc. nature of soul is established by memory, retention, tangibility and also by tradition.
Both seventeenth and eighteenth Astakas are entitled as Māṁsabhakṣaṇadūşaņāștakam. A verse occurred in Manusmrti depicts, that meat-eating, consuming liquor and coupulation is not sinful but abstention from it brings great rewards. In both of these Astakas, Haribhadra refutes the arguments put forward by advocates of meat-eating. The adherents of meat-eating, plead that as milk, the constituent of the body of cow and rice, the part of the