Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra Part 02 Bhagvai Terapanth

SR No.: 006599
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya, Mahapragna Acharya, Mahendramuni, Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2009
Total Pages: 740
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
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Bhagavai 5:7:181
-: 295:Summary Verse
The relative numerical strength of the periods of stability of (a material entity with respect to) its stay at a particular space, occupation of space, number of paramāņus and modification is the topic under discussion; the least is the period of stability with respect to stay at a particular) space and the rest are each innumerable times of what precedes.
Bhāşya 1. Sutra 181
In the present Sütra, the relative numerical strength of the periods of stability of a material entity (i.e. an ultimate atom or a cluster) with respect to the number of paramānus in the entity, its stay at a particular space, the size of space occupied by it and the modifications undergone by it.
(1) The period of stability of stay at a particular space-space is non-corporeal and material entity is corporeal; so there is no special bond between them, the result is that a material entity does not stay for long at a particular space. Hence, the period of stability of stay at a particular space is the least.
(2) The size of a material entity can remain constant even inspite of occupying different space at different times. Therefore, the period of stability of the size of space occupied is innumerable times that of the stay at a particular space.
(3) There is possibility of expansion and contraction in a material entity--sometimes it contracts and sometimes it expands, and there is a consequent change in the size of the space occupied, but the number of paramāņus constituting the material entity may remain stable for a longer time. For this reason, the period of stability of the number of paramānus is innumerable times that of the size of the space occupied by the entity.
(4) The number of paramānus in a material entity may undergo change on account of the process of integration and disintegration. In spite of this change, the modes of quality like colour, etc. may not undergo change so quickly. Therefore, the period of stability of modes is innumerable times that of the number of paramānus in the material entity.
Abhayadevasūri has quoted fifteen gāthās for explaining the relative numerical strength, which give the logical justification of their relative numerical strength.
1. Bha. VỊ. 5.181-nano koetrasyāvagahanāyāśca ko bhedah? ucyate, ksetramavagadhameva, avagahana tu vivaksitakşeträdanyatrāpi pudgalānām tatparimāņāvagāhitvamiti.
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