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Bhagavai 5:Preface
- 185 :with Mahāvīra himself and also his disciples. Lord Mahāvīra used to show great respect to Lord Pārsva. Lord Mahāvīra unreservedly supported and explained the cosmology propounded by Lord Pārýva to the elders in the Pārsva tradition.16
All the ten sections of the present Sataka are full of subject-matter that deserves careful investigation.
1. Bha. 5.27-jayā nam bhamte! dāhiņaddhe padhamā osappiņi, tayā ņam uttaraddhe vi; jayā ņam
uttaraddhe, tayā nam dhāyaisamde mamdarāņam pavvayāņam puratthima-paccatthime ņam natthi osappiņi jāva samanāuso?
hamtā goyamā! jāva samaņāuso. 2. Whitehead's 'eternalness'. 3. Bha. 5.51. 4. N. Tatia, That Which ls, p.144—"Modes appear and disappear, but substances and qualities do
not. Qualities change in their intensity, but do not change in their essential nature. The change that takes place in substances is more fundamental and can be defined only in reference to time-units
which are more subtle." 5. Ta. Sū. Bhā. Vp 5.26—pūrvapariņāmepamardena uttapariņāmabhavanam, tasmimscottarapariņāme
pūrvapariņāmasyāsambhava eva bhāvāntarāpattiphalatvāt pariņāmasya. 6. Bha. 5.52. 7. Ibid., 5.53 8. Ibid., 5.64-75, 94-102, 108-111. 9. Pā. Yo. Da. 4.34 puruşārthaśūnyānām guņānām pratiprasavaḥ daivalyam svarūpapratisthā vā
vitiśaktitiri. 10. Bha. 5.128-135. 11. Syādvādamañjarī, p.330—yū7 (Ui) 12. Bha. 5.208-233. 13. Some discussion on this issue has been covered in Bhag. 1.312, 313. 14. Bha. 5.237,238. 15. Vai. Su. 95.2.19—dravyagunakarmanispattivaidharmyadabhāvastamah. 16. Bha. 5.254,255.
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