Nandanvana

SR No.: 006597
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 592
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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fine gross. The eye perceptibility criterion of fineness has created this problem. It is rectifiable. These and other molecular species are also called vargaṇā (made up of many diatomics and useful for us). Formerly, there were eight vargaṇās but Dhavalā and Gommaṭasāra mentions 23 of them in order of grossness starting from anu (single atom, groups of atoms or molecules) to the biggest molecule each vargaṇās being made up of homologous molecules. There is difference between the two classifications not only in the number but in name also. The first eight vargaṇās include five bodies gross, protean, communication, luminous and karmic - together with mind, speech and respiratory organs. The group of 23 does not include the first three bodies (per chance they might be taken as included in the āhāra or food vargaṇā) and respiratory organs. However, it includes (i) luminous and (ii) karmic bodes, (iii) speech (iv) mind together with (v) single molecule (vi) numerable, (vii-viii) innumerable and infinite molecular species, (ix) food, (x) individual body, (xi) gross nigoda, (xii) fine nigoda, (xii-xiv) sky and world with many inexplicable interceptions unable to form karma particles. Out of these, it is only four vargaṇās - karmic body, luminous body, speech and mind which are capable of becoming karmas Rest will be neo-karmas or karma-likes. Here also, following discrepancies in the order are observable:
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(a) Luminous body vargaṇā has been said to be grosser than food vargaṇā even in contrast with Kundakunda.
(b) The fine nigoda vargaṇā has been placed after the gross nigoda
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(c) The eight-vargaṇā system has respiratory group after the energy
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These are also mostly due to Akalanka's view that visual perception is grosser than non-visual perception. This could not be correct, as air is grosser than energy particles. These and similar other discrepancies must be rectified. The explanation of interfusing combination of atoms to cause fineness of larger molecular species by Ohira's cannot be fully substantiated, as increase in density is proportional to the extension. Besides the material vargaṇā nature of karma, following are the other important aspects: