Tattvartha Sutra

SR No.: 006796
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sukhlal Sanghavi, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 596
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Tattvartha Sutra, & Tattvarth
File Size: 10 MB

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CHAPTER TWO
'Among the three types mentioned before taijasa one mentioned later is made up of asankhayāta times bigger atomic-aggregates than one mentioned immediately earlier. 39. The last two types-viz. taijasa and kārmaṇa-possess ananta times bigger atomic aggregates than the earlier mentioned ones. 40.
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Both the body types taijasa and kārmaṇa are without resistance. 41.
They happen to be in association with a soul since a beginingless time. 42.
And they are possessed by all the worldly souls wihout exception. 43.
A soul can simultaneously possess either the taijasa and kārmaṇa types of body, or these two plus one more, or these two plus two more. 44.
Only the last type of body-viz. kārmaṇa-is devoid of an experience of pleasure, pain etc. 45.
The first type of body-viz. audārika-is exclusively produced either in the case of birth out of a womb or in that of birth by way of agglutination. 46.
The vaikriya type of body is produced in the case of birth by way of sudden manifestation. 47.
2And it is also produced through labdhi or superordinary power. 48.
1. Here in the vṛtti to the Bhāṣya the word 'pradeśa' has been explained as 'aggregate made up of ananta atoms.' But in the Sarvārthasiddhi etc. it is explained as 'atom'.
2. After this aphorism another one-viz. taijasam api-is found in the Digambara tradition but not in the Svetambara. In the Sarvārthasiddhi etc. the new aphorism is explained as follows: the taijasa type of body too is capable of being produced through labdhi or superordinary power-that is to say, just as the vaikriya type of body can be produced through super-ordinary power so too can be the taijasa type; of course, this does not mean that the taijasa type of body can be produced through super-ordinary power alone.