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Contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature
attainment (of liberation). They have nobody as their overlord. (138)
Lordship in this transitory world born of Karma differs with each body (Kșetra). One Lord therefore bereft of a body, the doer does not exist in this world. (139)
Creation and non-eternality are not possible in case of mountains like Meru etc. in the world eternal due to immersion (*), shape and form and steadiness. (140)
This Loka is not any offspring ever of any creator, in view of its variedness in virtues, expansion and compression. So say the perfected men with reference to all the three worlds and all matters. (141)
Bereft of īśvara, the wheel of time, Jyoti and Jiva goes on rotating through the sheer force of nature and Karma. (142)
Highest Knowledge tells us that "in all the three worlds, moon, sun, ocean etc. never transgress their limits and this Atma is based on its nature of Karma." (143)
All earths, oceans, mountains, the celestial world with Svarga and Siddhyalaya—all these are natural (= self-existent) and eternal. All that it outside of it is non-worldly (Alaukika) (i.e. Aloka) (144)
Prakrti, Puruşa, Vidhāna, Kāla, Srsti, Vidhi and daiva are the different nomenclatures by which animals etc. roam in this transitory world, being helpless by their own karmas. (145)
This mysterious world, with all (variegated innumerable Jivas an their Yonis), that are results of the force of their own Karma, has neither and end or a beginning. (146)
Therefore, this wheel of the transitory world, which is without a beginning or an end, which is terror-stricken with all sorrows and sufferings, which has spokes in the form of countless births, and a very had * of the wheel, and which has a * in form of excessive passions, eternally moves bound as inspired by the winds of ones own Karmas. Here, what is the need of an Isvara ? (147)
Here ends the Lokatattvanirnaya written by Harribhadrasuri.
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