Pravachanasara

SR No.: 003289
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram
Publication Year: 1964
Total Pages: 612
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 16 MB

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Pravacanasära
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9. Origination, permanence and destruction take place in modifications; modifications are (possible) necessarily in a substance, therefore the substance forms the base of all of them.
10. A substance, in fact, is intimately united with the (three) conditions signified by the terms: origination, permanence and destruction at one and the same moment; therefore, really speaking, the substance is the substratum of) all the three.
11. In a substance some modification originates and some other passes away; but the substantiality neither originates nor is destroyed.
12. The substance, which is not different from its (initial) existence, develops of its own accord some other quality leaving the one; therefore, modifications in qualities are further called the substance.
13. If the substance is not an existing entity, it must be either non-existing or again something else than a substance; in either case how can it be a substance ? therefore, the substance is self-existent.
14. It is the dictum of Mahāvīra that separateness (prthaktva) consists in having separated space-points; non-identity (anyatva) is the absence of identity; (between satta or existence and dravya or substance) there is no identity (na tabbhavam perhaps the same as atadbhavah, non-identity), then how can those two be one?
15. Substance is existing, quality is existing and modification is existing: so is the detailed scope of existence; the negation of any one of them, in fact, is that negation termed as non-identity.
16. Really speaking what is substance is not quality, nor what is quality is substance; this is a case of non-identity and not of absolute negation: so it is pointed out.
17. That condition, which, in fact, forms the nature of the substance, is quality which is not different from its initial existence; that existing entity established in its nature is the substance: this is the doctrine of the Jina.
18. There is nothing as quality nor as a modification in the absence of a substance; that substantiality is (a condition) of positive existence; therefore the substance is existence itself.1
19. In this manner, the substance forever retains its position, in its own nature, as endowed with positive and negative conditions
1. Compare P. 8, 11-12.