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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TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
Vyantara have got two indras each, then it is implied that the remaining two nikāyas have not got two indras each. In the case of Jyotiskas, Candra (i.e. the moon) and Sūrya (i.e the sun) act as indra. And since Candras and Sūryas are asankhyāta in number the same is the number of indras pertaining to the Jyotiskanikāya. In the case of the Vaimānika-nikāya each Kalpa has got one indra. Thus in the Saudharma-kalpa sakra is indra, in Aiśāna Iśāna, in Sānatkumāra Sanatkumara; similarly, in the heavens further upwards there is an indra bearing a name corresponding to that of the heaven itself. The only noteworthy point in this connection is that the two Kalpas Ānata and Pranata have got a common indra whose name is Prāṇata while the two Kalpas Āraņa and Acyuta have got a common indra whose name is Acyuta. 6.
The Situation as to Leśyā in the First Two Nikāyas :
The gods of the first two nikāyas possess Leśyās upto the yellow. 7.
The Bhavanapatis and Vyantaras-these two species of gods are said to possess just four dravyaleśyās, leśyās which are of the form of bodily colour. These are black, blue, grey and yellow. 7.
An Account of Sexual Enjoyment on the Part of Gods :
The Gods residing upto Aiśāna are Kāyapravīcāra—that is, such as experience sexual enjoyment through body. 8.
As for the remaining Kalpas the gods residing in the first two experience sexual enjoyment through touch, those residing in the next two do so through form, those residing in the next two do so through sound, those residing in the next two do so through thought. 9.
The rest of the gods are all immune from sexual enjoyment. 10.
The Bhavanapatis, Vyantaras, Jyotiskas and the Vaimānikas residing in the first two heavens—these gods derive pleasure from a sexual enjoyment experienced through body just as do men.
The Vaimānika gods residing in the heavens third upward